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Old August 31st 03, 12:13 AM
Mitch Hines
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"Mark Astley" wrote in message
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Marco,


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Don't know anything about the M10, sorry. I DO know that the first M20s

had wooden
wings, if that's true for the M10 then steer well clear.

good luck,
mark

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Just for the record, the Mooney M10 Cadet is all-metal. It is really just
an Aircoupe with its tail feathers clipped. Mooney bought the
Ercoupe/Aircoupe type certificate and started producing the plane after
Alon. But they clipped off the most distictive part of the 'Coupe, the twin
vertical fins and replace it with their well know Mooney tail. With the twin
Tails the plane was placarded as incapable of spinning, under normal CG
limits it just could not be made to spin. For better or worse, this was
not true once Mooney put their tail on it. In my opinion, Mooney did Fred
Weick's design a great disservice. The M10 may be a great little plane, but
it just ain't the same bird.


Mitch Hines
Alon A-2 Aircoupe
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Old September 1st 03, 10:56 PM
Steve Dold
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Mitch Hines wrote:

not true once Mooney put their tail on it. In my opinion, Mooney did Fred
Weick's design a great disservice. The M10 may be a great little plane, but
it just ain't the same bird.


I think they probably did it because they wanted a conventional trainer.
Although I hated the M10, I have to admit it generated a LOT of attention
when I would taxi into an airport. Not to many people have seen one.

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