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Hartmut, YES, you are right! All the observations I made were in a correctly rigged plane, flown within prescribed weight and balance. ANYTIME you fly outside the defined limits you are a test pilot. If you fly way outside the defined limits you will be a statistic as soon as the bad dice roll comes up. But Coupes, when correctly rigged and flown within the prescribed weight and balance are, I submit, pretty safe and unlikely to bite you. But as Fred Weick told me in an interview, he greatly underestimated the amount bad judgment affects safety. I think Coupes attract some bad-pilot-yahoos who fly with bad judgment. After their acts of Darwinism, Coupes' accident rates are a lot worse than the aircraft deserves. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/ ed -at- edburkheadQQQ.com (change -at- and remove the QQQ) I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure if you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. (Jim, AKA Midnight Plowboy) -----Original Message----- From: Hbeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:01 PM To: Ed Burkhead; Larry Snyder; Coupe-Tech Subject: Re: [COUPERS-TECH] Unusual stall behavior All these observations are of course only true for a nicely rigged plane to factory specs. Hartmut ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers-tech/
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