"Peter Dohm" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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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.


Yeah, those mains are really hefty. The nosewheel has an unusual and
clever feature. There's a fairing on the lower scissors that Streamlines
the mosewheel strut when it's extended.

Someone, i think it was Joe Ott, modeled the thing for free flight in
the late thirties. It's a large FF model an amazingly close to scale.
Dihedral gear arrangement and all are fairly close. Probably the
tailplane has been enlarged but that's about it. Nowadays guys build
those old FF designs but often add some simple radio to keep them from
flying away.It's called "radio assist" The full size is a bit like that
when you think about it..


Bertie