"Peter Dohm" wrote in
:



Some Ercoupe trivia has to include the twin fuselage someone made in
the fifties as an airshow curiosity and it holds a place in history
as the first aircraft to have a JATO bottle installed. There's a
famous pic of that flight with the airplane taking off at an
absolutely insane angle of climb.I'm sure it's on the net somewhere.


Bertie

I ran into that while looikng for info on the undercarriage, here's
one of the links:
http://www.geocities.com/~planes/cfacts/jato.htm

Pretty cool accessory, eh? I flew a twin beech that had them as an
emergency engine failure provision, but we didn't use them. It upped the
max take off weight. They'd be a hoot on a light single like an Ercouple
though!


Bertie