All, Thank you very much to all of you who answer the mails regarding this subject. As I previously said here in this group, this is a fantastic place to learn something every day. Thanks again ! Daniel Arditi, Buenos Aires Ercoupe Argentina group.
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Daniel Arditi <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, April 12, 2010 6:54:41 PM Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Re: JATO Ercoupe videos All, I doubt that the Eroupe should be considered the first jet powered airplane. Perhaps the first JATO plane. But I'm not sure that some experiments along jet lines might have also been conducted in other countries. The Whittle engine was running in test cells in the mid-thIrties and I don't know when they first put it in a flyable airframe. I also personally draw a distinction between jet and rocket propulsion. Despite the J in JATO, I would class the Ercoupe flights as rocket propelled as opposed to jet propelled. John Roach N 2427H Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ________________________________ From: Daniel Arditi <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:54:49 -0700 (PDT) To: Donald<[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Re: JATO Ercoupe videos Really ? Was the Ercoupe the first jet powered plane on the planet ? I never heard that. Fantastic :-) Daniel ________________________________ From: Donald <dongen...@rgv. rr.com> To: ercoupe-tech@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Mon, April 12, 2010 5:43:05 PM Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: JATO Ercoupe videos Although not shown in that clip, they later took the propeller off and flew it by rockets alone! That HAD to make an Ercoupe the first jet powered plane on the planet! --- In ercoupe-tech@ yahoogroups. com, "Jerry Ward" <mag45tor63@ ...> wrote: > > In the video you can see that one of the JATO bottles failed and blew up and > that is how the hole in the bottom of the fuselage got there. Those guys were > really playing with fire and didn't really know what was going to happen. I > think they are lucky that they didn't blow that Coup up..ha Jerry in the > Great Northwest. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Professor Ed 1%er > To: ercoupe-tech@ yahoogroups . com > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 5:17 AM > Subject: [ercoupe-tech] JATO Ercoupe videos > > > > Great videos! Love the old stuff! Any information about the aircraft based on > its tail number: NC28855? It would have been better had there been some > sound, though. I would have liked to heard what was being said about the > tests. Wonder how the hole in the underbelly got there? > > Carl LaVon > re you serious
