> She flew with the Southern Oregon Ercoupers as >a cub reporter, What's that? Someone who calls all small planes (including coupes) 'Piper Cubs?' :-)
ObCoupeContent: I now understand better the whole
raison d'etre behind the Coupe. On Monday, on a
whim, I stopped by a local little field and started
to check out in their very original Aeronca 7AC.
1946, around the time of the 415's hitting its
stride. No phone, no lights, no starter.
Damn, but that thing is actually hard to fly! (Not
that I don't love it.) Compared to a 150 or 172 or
PA28, it is a real little bugger in terms of adverse
yaw, landing, etc.
As I struggled to keep the ball centered, and the
airspeed in that little window of acceptability, and
to land it in a five-knot crosswind without making
too much of a spectacle of myself, I thought about
something. Especially as I heard the dire warnings
about inadvertantly crossing the controls, low and
slow.
I thought back on all the people who had learned to fly
in those sorts of airplanes. Airplanes that really
want to jump up and bite you, hard.
And I thought about what a revolution the little Ercoupe
was in a world where 'little airplanes' were pretty
demanding critters.
Greg
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