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In addition, it comes in REAL handy during crosswind landings when you
cross control to hold the airplane straight while holding a wing down into the crosswind. I still have yet to learn how to do that. When I was training for my license, my instructor told me I could either approach wing-low or crab (with a kick of rudder just before touchdown to straighten out). I chose the second option. Now, of course, I need to learn wing-low to land our RV-6... |
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"Ernest Christley" wrote ...
So, I should just read it as I would read the diatribe of any revolutionary thinker. Revelutionaries see problems with the status quo, and see that the truth lies in a different direction. The problem lies in their depth perception, so they tend to overshoot the mark. The truth tends to lie somewhere between here and where they think it should be. Revolutionaries are rarely right. In politics, they see an opportunity to grab power in the name of "The People" and usually end up as an even greater evil than the old regime. In engineering, they are people with half formed ideas of how things work and they shout about it from the hill tops. Mr. Langewiesche was reflecting the thinking of his time not pronouncing a "New Truth". Mechanical design is always evolutionary never revolutionary. Rich |
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Complete misfire....? Yoo Hoo, Ernest... You are the one who is "misfiring" on every count. ;o) You have precisely described the ubiquitous ERCOUPE. http://ercoupe.com/couphist.htm Barnyard BOb - RV3 driver and Ercoupe aficionado Yea, how well did that catch on? Real good. Not! ;-) -- Jim in NC |
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:47:23 -0700, "C J Campbell"
wrote: "Barnyard BOb --" wrote in message .. . | | P.S. | You and I traveled the Ercoupe road last December. | Others can look it all up in google, if interested. I tried looking that thread up myself, but I couldn't find it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The thread was "Luscombe Spin Characteristics" Here's a sample without me in it..... On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:42:34 -0800, "C J Campbell" wrote: "Bob Fry" wrote in message ... Kevin Horton writes: Ha, ha, ha. Only someone with NO knowledge of Coupe design could write this. Actually, Coupes can handle considerably greater crosswind landings than most other planes. -------------------------------------------------------- True, but only because the Ercoupe is designed to be landed almost sideways. I like the Ercoupe, even though it did not quite live up to its promise of being stall/spin proof -- the only thing it proved was the ingenuity of pilots in figuring out ways to stall/spin a spin-proof airplane. Amazingly, the Ercoupe will even ground loop -- historically about three times as often as a Cessna 150. What kind of bonehead would ground loop an Ercoupe? It has to be right after the pilot says "Hey, you can land these things in any crosswind. Watch this!" |
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Complete misfire....? Yoo Hoo, Ernest... You are the one who is "misfiring" on every count. ;o) You have precisely described the ubiquitous ERCOUPE. http://ercoupe.com/couphist.htm Barnyard BOb - RV3 driver and Ercoupe aficionado So these concepts are so important that the author goes on and on about them, and there is exactly one plane that implements the concepts. I would call that a misfire. You are so far down the learning curve it is utterly laughable that you should even have an opinion at this point. Call it a 'BACKFIRE' if you wish. Makes no difference to me. Never flown an Ercoupe, though I have seen one. The author even mentions it in the book later on (past what I have read so far). But if the ideas are so great, why aren't they used in every new design? You ask a very simple question with no simple answer. Why is anything where it is in the fickle marketplace? Take the canard for example. The Wright Bros started an industry with it and yet it is considered at least as much of an 'oddball' as the Ercoupe in its own way. FWIW.... There are thousands of 'better ideas' that the public resists for one illogical reason or another. Contrary to popular belief, building a better mousetrap is no guarantee that anyone will ever beat a path to your door. Since the Ercoupe originally had only a luke warm public acceptance and currently has very low resale as a used aircraft due to supply and demand.... why would any responsible manufacturer produce anything akin to it brand new today unless they have a sincere desire for bankruptcy? Barnyard BOb -- nothing quite like an Ercoupe |
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"Morgans" wrote: You have precisely described the ubiquitous ERCOUPE. http://ercoupe.com/couphist.htm Barnyard BOb - RV3 driver and Ercoupe aficionado Yea, how well did that catch on? Real good. Not! ;-) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5600 Ercoupes is not a shameful number, if you care to think about other notables of the era that did not fare nearly as well. With almost 9000 hours, CSMEL, Instrument ticket, CFI and 50 years of experience in many different aircraft what am I missing about a neat aircraft that was ahead of its time over 60 years ago? P.S. Why all the ****ing negativity, anyway? The Coupe's a fine fun flying aircraft with no bad habits and a bargain at today's prices. Barnyard BOb -- |
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The General G-1 Skyfarer took it all a step further and eliminated the
rudders entirely. Vertical stabs only. "Stall & Spin proof". Looks like a wreck between an Ercoupe and Tripacer. -- Kevin McCue KRYN '47 Luscombe 8E Rans S-17 (for sale) -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Does B-2 ring a bell? -- Dan D. .. "Ernest Christley" wrote in message . com... I'm about halfway through this book. It is quite an eye opener. The author's explanations seem so insightful, cogent and complete. However, there's this one blemish. Printed in 1944, the author makes the claim that the rudder will disappear in just a few years, as it is only there to cover the designer's mistakes. He also goes into detail about designing an airplane that won't stall by using mechanical stops to limit the angle of attack, and one that eliminates the need for rudder pedals by tying the rudder to the stick so that the turn to bank automatically produces the correct rudder action. I began reading this book specifically because it got so much praise in so many post in this group. Obviously, there are a lot of others here who believe the author has a lot of flying wisdom to share. Yet, all the airplanes I've seen have rudders and rudder pedals. Furthermore, they all allow you to pull the airplane back into a stall. Why? If the ideas expressed in the book are so simple and effective, why aren't they used? Why hasn't the FAA, ever willing to step up and protect us from ourselves, required Frise ailerons and a rudderless airplane? Why would Cessna set itself up for liability lawsuits by not using simple ideas that were expressed 60 years ago? Why would the entire aeronautical engineering community leave the door open for Brian Gunn to come up with an idea like 'liability stealth'? I asked this because all of the author's other explanations seem so insightful, cogent and complete. I feel I now have a deeper understanding of several phases of flight. But his complete misfire on this rudder thing has me stumped. -- ----Because I can---- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ ------------------------ |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... | Hi Mr. C.J. Campbell: | | Come by row 16 at Arlington. I'll give you all the straight scoop | on Ercoupes. | Looking forward to it. |
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Barnyard BOb -- wrote:
So these concepts are so important that the author goes on and on about them, and there is exactly one plane that implements the concepts. I would call that a misfire. You are so far down the learning curve it is utterly laughable that you should even have an opinion at this point. Call it a 'BACKFIRE' if you wish. Makes no difference to me. Hey, Unk! You sound like a man who is altitude-deprived. How's the "stick" for your "horse"? Langewische does go on as though the rudder will be obsolete on the new "safety airplanes" which will take over the fleet. It's not unreasonable to call that a "misfire" or a "backfire" or at least a faulty prediction. You ask a very simple question with no simple answer. Why is anything where it is in the fickle marketplace? .. There are thousands of 'better ideas' that the public resists for one illogical reason or another. Contrary to popular belief, building a better mousetrap is no guarantee that anyone will ever beat a path to your door. Too true! I think it's called "marketing". It's not sufficient to build a better mousetrap, you have to persuade everyone that it really *is* a better mousetrap and capture the market share fast before someone else gains sufficient of same to become the standard. Sydney (VHS over Beta, Windoze over Mac etc etc) |
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