I had to chuckle when Roger nearly broke his neck as he stepped off his coupe after replacing his doughnuts and spacers. I had the same experience. I also had the same squirrely effect with the low tail, wanted to lift off before I had adequate speed with variations of headwinds. I had been receiving flying instructions for a couple weeks in my newly acquired coupe. Since my instructor was unfamiliar with the characteristics of the coupe, I was informed from a fellow couper that the tail was too low and replacing the doughnuts and spacers would alleviate the problem. And it did. What a difference! This was before my awareness of the Mailing List.
Take a look at my "Spirit of '46" (N93555) in The Ercoupe Network Photo Album http://www.ercoupe.net/ I must warn you, put your dark glassed on cause it's pretty shiny. Took a lot of elbow grease--20 hours to be exact. 'Twas a labor of love, however. The Romance continues....... Dallas -----Original Message----- From: Roger Hartwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:45 AM Subject: Correction to my reply to Steve >Steve, > >I just noticed in my reply regarding the tail raise I said I used 7/8" >spacers. I meant to say 7/16" as you indicated. As I mentioned, I think the >spacers alone will give you about 10" at the tail. By the way, you won't >believe how much bigger the Coupe looks with the tail high. Oh, and watch >out the first time you step off the wing, I forgot how much higher it was >and about broke my neck!! > >Roger - 99399 >
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