Re: N7541C

[Mi Vida Loca]

At 04:23 PM 6/8/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Dave I didn't have your private e-mail so will send this to the list.
>
>I was just going thru some of my old ercoupe stuff and ran across a
>color sales brochure of N7541C it shows there was 3 models
>The Fornaire-explorer $6995.00
>The Fornaire-Expediter $7895.00
>The Fornaire-Execta $8595.00
>
>Performance
>range 500 miles
>absolute ceiling 18,000ft
>service ceiling 15,500ft
>max. crusing speed 75% power 121 T.A.S.
>STALLING SPEED 56mph TIAS
>Take of Distance SL 500
>Landing Roll SL 600
>
>Does it still match the above performance:))))))
>
>Sorry to bore the list but I thought it was kind of unusual when I
>found the brochure and it was Dave's plane.
>
>Jim Palmer
>So. Dak.
>Alon 5642F
>
Jim,
Yep that's 41 Charlie alright, She is an Execta. When originally built she was a standard 2 control Coupe. She was later modified at the factory with rudder pedals. According to one source she was the first with the factory pedal option. I have not however been able to find any documentation of that being a fact. Since she was used on the brochure and as a factory demonstrator I suspect it may be true.

The performance specs are still pretty much in line. The only one I question is the STALL SPEED of 56 mph. I usually indicate roughly 50 mph at the break but that may just be because a normal airspeed indicator reads off from a calibrated one used for certification. As for service ceiling the highest I've been in it is 12,500 but in "The Ercoupe a Touch of Class" on page 338 there is a copy of the Coupe Scoop the news letter published by Forney for Coupe owners there is a reference to 41 Charlie going to 17,800 feet on a very hairy flight. If you have a copy of this book, read it, it was a wild flight!

Now as for range, it may do 500 miles, but my bladder never has. :-)


Dave
41 Charlie
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