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----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> > >For some reason Bonanzas and Ercoupes seem to go together. Could it be > >that they recognize the tails of most other aircraft are wrong! > > I don't think so...even Beech recognized that the V-tail maybe wasn't the > best idea they ever > came up with. Back-seat passengers grow to hate it, the yaw-damper > manufacturers love it, > and it's been plagued with structural issues that override any aerodynamic > (drag) gains. Other > than the unique recognizability, it doesn't offer much on balance (pun > maybe intended). Yea, it took them 30 years of production to figure out no one liked it. Those 11,000 V units were quite a run! Yaw damper manufacturers love the folks who can't fly with their feet on the pedals. Ooops, that's us Ercoupers!!! > Besides, a Bonanza is a Bonanza no matter what tailfeathers it wears. > Whether you call it > a 33, or a Debonair, or an A- or B- the darn things just FEEL right to the > pilot. I'd say it's > 'je ne sais quoi' but I know 'quoi.' It's a big airplane, but it doesn't > feel big. Solid, but not > big. It's fun to go out and do the maneuvers, like ground reference > maneuvers that weren't > fun in flight training. The forces are light on the controls and > exquisitely harmonized. I'm one that thinks a real Bonanza has a V tail. The Debbies and subsequent Stretch Debbies were so named "Bonanza" by the marketing department in order to save dollars. A Debonair and the 36's are Bonanzas with those funny tails. > Then you come home, and it tends to really make you look good on landing. > > A lot like the Ercoupe. Except a lot more room. Prestige, space, and fun. > > Then there's the build quality. Makes everything else look like junk. Oh, > yeah, > there's the cracking Continental cases and jugs, but you could get those on > some Pipers, > and Cessnas too. Landing gear which, in the T34 variant, absorbs carrier > landings. Look > at the gear extension speed on everything else versus a Bonanza. You don't > get in that > situation where you're at pattern altitude and too fast to get to the > airport and can't drop > the gear very easily. > > The Bonanza was the plane I didn't want to love. (Remember, I grew up in a > Comanche.) > > It was love at first flight. > > Greg > > > ========================================================================== == == > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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