Kevin asked:
> Has anyone heard that the belly of the Ercoupe was purposely designed > to flutter and make noise as a stall warning device? And that people > over the years have put stiffeners in this area to make it stop in the > believe that it was a design and in doing so disabled the stall warning? How could the "belly" of the plane flutter? I'd think that formed aluminum like that would be quite rigid. Since your question brings up interesting issues I wrote up a good description and an illustration and put it on my website. Here's the truth as I understand it: http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/stall_development.htm Ed Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm ed -at- edbur???khead.yyy change -at- to @, remove the ??? and change yyy to com
