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Jason J Ellingson
From: Wood, Percy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:42 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Ercoupe Tech
Cc: 'scott'
Subject: RE: [COUPERS-TECH] More questions:
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You are completely
correct as always, Vern.
It is true that
when a "per the Type Certificate" weight and balance and equipment list has been
done one adjusts for replaced equipment and it remains
accurate.
However, in the
fifty/sixty years that Ercoupes have been flying, that standard may not have
been maintained.
Just measuring
each wheel with a bathroom scale could very well be off from that.
`Specially if someone in one's house adjusts the scale! Provided the scale
is accurate, and will go up to the weight involved accurately (four or five
hundred pounds = maximum on one Ercoupe wheel), this method should be close
enough to reveal a problem. Granting that it just gets the total weight
and not the balance, I feel it is do-able without the time/expense of "The Full
Monte." I think it is better to have a good idea of what the plane really
weighs than guess. Planes, like the people that drive them, tend to get
heavier with age... L
Ending on a
personal note, Vern; you back in
Percy in NM,
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