The coupe was designed to sit on its gear in a negative angle of attack position - or nearly so -, so that when you land and the nose gear compresses, the airplane no longer produces lift. This allows the airplane to be stable on the after landing roll out - even at high speeds. The literature suggests that you can safetly land the Ercoupe at about 90 MPH, without ballooning, with slight forwarpressure on the controls.
I put spacers on my coupe several years ago, and it corrected the squirley roll out that I was experiencing, especially if there was considerable gustiness, etc. What a change, to make it fly like Fred Weick designed it to do. However, you now have to move the controls back to raise the nose on take off - then fly out at about 80 MPH. I have left the trim at the same place for climb attitude, but do have to rotate to achieve lift on take off. I don't see this as a problem. I haven't tried it, but I suspect if I achieved 80 + mph on the taxi run, the coupe would then rotate to the climb sttitude and fly on away. However, I rotate about 60 MPH, normally. Harry Francis 93530 BCB
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