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Hey Kids, Flew the 'coupe today for the first time since November, thus ending a long winter of Ercoupe withdrawls and other symptoms. It has been hangared for the winter & I simply had no time to fly this spring due to work & college. I digress. My cousin flew me the 110 miles to my coupe's "winter grounds" in HIS 100hp Ercoupe. As we were flying back home, I was trying to keep up with his Supercoupe with my 85 ponies. Due to nailing some big thermals, I had outclimbed him but he was ahead of me. We were going to do a formation fly-by to our lunch destination, and I was trying to get to the wingman position. As I descended down to catch up to him (he was about 800' below me), I entered the yellow arc of the speed range, a place I haven't flown much in. There was some intermittent turbulence and we were flying in brisk winds (but the plane didn't know that I guess)... As I descended, I got a sudden "shuddering" in the ailerons, like they were trying to flap up and down on their own. I reduced speed & power; the buffetting quit and all was well.It was a bit unnerving. I surmise that due to the size of the ailerons, this may just be a normal effect one would encounter when moving at high speeds. The plane was just annualled and otherwise flew normally so I don't know of any other problems that might have caused this phenom. Has anyone else encountered this? It was good to fly!!!!!!!! John in Boise N3201H ====================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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