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Jack, Best post on the list in years! We do tend to get "full of ourselves" from time to time. Keep up the good work! Hank Austin ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Coupes <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] The Things I Have Learned This Week. > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > Things I've learned in the last week: > > Some people like to polish there kitchen stove. This is done to make the > stove resemble a Ercoupe. They then attach a VSI to the stove and drop it > out of a airplane and watch it fall. If falls very fast, but not as fast as > a Ercoupe. > > Others place their hands on the wing root while on an approach. This is > done, to the best of my understanding, to make the Coupe fall faster. I > believe this is accomplished by pushing so hard on the wing root that the > wings break off. > > This, breaking off the wings, is due in part to the corrosion that is on all > Ercoupe spars. I think the corrosion is either black or white, the color > was never nailed down. But it's there and you just as well use it to your > advantage. > > Now to get this corrosion, to make the plane land faster, one must add Swiss > Cheese to the wings. This is done in compliance to a AD. This Swiss Cheese > addition encourages mice to live in the wings. Their little kidneys create > a by-product that eats away at the wings spars. > > Now you can't see the little mice do this, (Number 1), they are bashful. > (Don't peak in the holes in the wings, a mirror won't help). But you can > hide a camera in the wing and take pictures. I guess you then publish these > videos on the web under some strange site name. www.pervertedmice.com > > Ercoupes can fly slow. Some fly so slow that they overheat, the engine > quits and they drop out of the sky like a chrome plated kitchen stove. > Others don't overheat because those little mice are up there on the > cylinders doing Number 1 on the hot surfaces to keep them cool. > > Some Ercoupes fly real fast. This high speed will no doubt help get the > corroded wings off. > > But PLEASE, tell the little mice when you are planning to break off the > wings so they can get out. Let's be human. > > Jack > > > > ========================================================================== == == > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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