Ercoupe on skis
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Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:51 am
OK, I admit I know nothing about skis and only flew an Ercoupe once.
Ran across one for sale on Barnstormers, skis included. Unfortunately there were no pictures of them mounted up.
Somehow I can't get my head around an Ercoupe on snow.
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How about an Ercoupe on floats?

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Ok, now someone needs to post the picture of the JATO takeoff in an Ercoupe and this thread would be complete.
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Ha good way to 'smoke' your buddies on takeoff. i wonder if it was loud?
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Needs bushwheels...
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damn - the Ercoupe looks complete to me.
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Wow! A twin engine four place Ercoupe....

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My very first CFI job was teaching an old guy who decided he wanted to fly, bought an Ercoupe and hired me! It had a really tired 85 horse Continental, the two up service ceiling was 9,000 feet! But hey, I was finally getting paid to fly!!! It was a good old bird - I have fond memories of those days. The twin looks like it would be fun to fly, just imagine the reaction at the pumps!!
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A twin Ercoupe with jato bottles on amphibs.....think it would win any awards at Oshkosh or Watsonville?
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Nice! Flew an Ercoupe without the rudder pedals once, strong easy plane to fly, weird flying without your feet though.. particularly for a tail dragger pilot!!
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Dunno if the pic of the taildragger Ercoupe is photoshopped or the real deal, but IMHO the 'coupe wouldn't be very satisfactory as such-- not enough rudder. You'd have to be careful about letting the tail come up on takeoff, and you'd be unable to slip it enough to keep it aligned with the runway in pretty much any crosswind at all. Remember, those twin rudders only deflect one way,outward-- they can't deflect inward due to hitting the elevator.
I lke the Ercoupe floatplane though.
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Ercoupe rudders do deflect inward, but not very much. In my Ercoupe with rudder peddals I made crosswind landings in as much as 20 knots crosswind at 90 degrees to the runway (I came close to dragging a wingtip at Fort Collins Airpark once). As for tailwheel Ercoupes, there have been several converted by turning the main gear around backwards. There is (or was at one time) at least one Ercoupe taildragger with Cessna 150 tailfeathers on it, It was done in the mid 70's and licenced as experimental.
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Dale Moul wrote: Ercoupe rudders do deflect inward, but not very much. In my Ercoupe with rudder peddals I made crosswind landings in as much as 20 knots crosswind at 90 degrees to the runway (I came close to dragging a wingtip at Fort Collins Airpark once). ....
It's one thing to do that in a "self-correcting" tricycle gear airplane, and another in a taildragger. How many nosedraggers have you ever seen groundloop?
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