"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Dan wrote in
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On Mar 9, 8:23 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

I've flown the Ercoupe. Not much to it really. It was fun running the
side windows down and flying along with my arm out on the edge of the
cockpit sort of like in a car.
The landings were a bit different if you had any crosswind at all,
but easily doable in the crab. Take off was the same. As soon as you
broke ground, it weather vaned into the wind with aileron. Sort of a
"spooky" little airplane but it flew quite well and was quite fast
for its day.

The one I flew didn't have the later rudder capability. Never flew
the Alon.

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Dudley Henriques

Are you supposed to kick out the crab or land crabbed?

There's nothing to kick. It has a Brake pedal out of a 39 nash on the
floor and that's it.


Bertie

One of my chapter members has been flying one forever, and looking in at
that little square mushroom sticking in the middle of the left half of the
floor is just a little unsettling. OTOH, watching the prop as he taxies
past, with the strange angle at which the engine is mounted is at least as
weird.

It does handle uneven ground quite well though.

Peter