[Qcwa] A little Christmas cheer

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:42:15 -0700

Interesting thing about the electric gas gauges in modern airplanes is they
are only accurate when empty.  With the cork and rod, you never had to
guess.

The Ercoupe was fun to fly.  No rudder peddles, everything tied to the yoke.
You drove it like a car on the ground with just a brake pedal and steered
with the wheel.  Of course it seems like a challenge to land in a cross
wind, but just crab into the wind and set it on it hind legs and it would
straighten itself out.  Didn't have to fool with the rudder like the Cub.

It also had  sliding canopy windows on both sides.  A pilot who wanted to
could slide the windows down and put his arm on the side like in a car
cruising.  But that bubble canopy sure got warm in the summer.

Fond memories flying that thing for a couple of hours and get only 160 or so
miles, and if in a strong headwind about 75 miles.  Of course in a 40 knot.
headwind in a cub, you can fly backwards.

73  Jim
de W5JO
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "walt supina" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Qcwa] A little Christmas cheer

> At 04:05 PM 12/13/2003, you wrote:
> >I am not sure Bob.  I owned an airplane just about 6 years ago that had a
> >hole in the gas cap with a piece of wire going through it.  The bottom of
> >the wire had a cork stuck on it and the top was bent at a 90 degree
angle.
> >Sat right outside of the windscreen.  That plane is still flying and
almost
> >as old as most of us.
> >
> >73  Jim
> >de W5JO
> Jim.....sounds like a J-3 Piper Cub.  My kid brother had one.   he and his
> wife flew it from California to
> Pennsylvania and followed the interstate highways.   He said it was pretty
> discouraging when he got a headwind and the cars passed him.
>
> 73
> de Walt N3WS
>
>
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