That is Bob Deaton's "Honey". He flew it from southern California to the convention in Middletown and took home the longest distance flown award.
Kevin1 --- In [email protected], "Erik" <gamestern...@...> wrote: > > I fly from KTWF in Southern Idaho. I take cupcake all over the > Western states and can easily get over 11,000' fully loaded. I have a > C85 and run it full throttle everywhere. Every year for Fathers Day I > go to the Smiley Creek fly in with my honey and young son and can take > off from the 7000'+ elevation grass strip and climb over the 9500' > mountains nearby to head south. Yeah the climb rate is low- but the > plane can do it! I think cupcake holds the Ercoupe altitude record > (class A airspace) when a friend and I flew down the Owens valley in > CA earlier this year. Point being is the Ercoupe is a capable X-C > plane if you don't mind stopping each 4 hours. >
