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GW, this is all so simple. I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned it yet. Or maybe I just didn't see it. It certainly won't require a rocket scientist to determine exactly what went wrong. You simply landed on your nose wheel. You touched down on the nose wheel first and sent the craft into the oscillations. The mistake you made was riding it out. It would has been so easy to simply power up and try again if you had enough runway left, or simply go around! That my friend would have avoided the crash entirely. It had absolutely nothing to do with your airplane. This would have happened to any and all nosewheel planes. It's your flying skills my friend, not the plane. And now you have a REAL handful with a taildradder. END OF STORY! GW wrote: > Andy, yes you are right. My Ercoupe has always been wrong. Everything > possible was done including spending around $5,000 after I bought it but > it > was still wrong. It had been crashed and repaired before, maybe that > was > it. I don't know. But I hardly lost control because of bad piloting. > Most > times it was fine, perhaps 1% of the time something went wrong and it > handled strange on landing but it all checked out on the ground. Every > time > I fixed it up I thought I'd solve its problems, but no! It was > certainly > "airworthy" and everybody said it looked real good. If what others say > about theirs is true then my plane was just a real dog. That is just > how it > is. But every plane can be good or bad depending upon your perspective. > I > figured if these guys were going to bring it on, then I'd give them a > fight. > I am amazed that they would automatically assume that I was at fault. > GET A > GRIP PEOPLE. There will be no FAA report as no accident report was > filed. > The airport manager decided this so "can it", whoever was going to say > something about that. Heck, the plane "looked" flyable. George, you > must be > really a smart fellow if you can figure all that out about my flying > skill > without even flying with me! GW > > Richard Todd __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 ==^================================================================
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