Thank you so much for this walk around. It brought back some wonderful memories.My father owned one back in the late 60's and had it parked at Meadowlark Airfield in Orange County, CA (my parents had divorced) all of which are gone now. It had cloth-covered wings. I would spend a lot of time just cleaning and keeping everything shiny. I got to taxi it out on the tarmac once. Never got to fly in it. I lived in Bishop, CA., and joined the Civil Air Patrol as a stepping stone to getting a license but, the cost of lessons was beyond my means. I will be 70 in February 2025 and want to fly in one before leaving this earthly realm. Keeping my fingers crossed. Keep on flying and happy skies!
So many people make this mistake. Flying is available to people at low cost with ultralights and sport pilot. Don't get trapped in the certificated flying thing, it's a money pit, CFIs are vultures
Great tour! When I first started flying at 16, there was a pilot at the airport who owned a polished all-aluminum Ercoupe. He had one arm, and his flying companion was a 3-legged dog who would easily, and eagerly, jump in the cockpit.
@@AviationAZRancher Hey, AZRancher! He was an OK Panhandle farmer and that's how he lost his arm. Not sure about the dog, but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't farm related, too. I'm AZ now, too!
When I was around 8 or 9 in the late 60’s, there was a lady that flew an Ercouoe out of the airport my dad flew out of. She had no legs and would roll out to the plane in her wheelchair. She’d preflight it and then climb up on the wing. She’d have someone there to roll her chair away and off she’d go. I asked my dad how she was able to fly it, that’s when I learned it had no rudder pedals. I always liked the thought of the sense of freedom it must have given her.
Such a sweet little airplane! I've worked on several (Canadian Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, ret.) and one of my best friends owned one. They are ageless, timeless, and a ton of fun to fly! Long live the Ercoupe!! (And variants!) 👍
Enjoyed your video, sir. My uncle ( a WW2 Navy veteran ) was home on leave and took my cousin and myself for a ride in a rented ercoupe). This was shortly after WW2. We were very young and shared the passenger seat. Still a very vivid memory of my uncle and the ride.
Thanks for sharing all about your plane!! Looks like you have a lot of fun flying it!! I grew up next to Montgomery Field airport in San Diego and went flying almost every day in the summer, asking the pilots if I could ride along. In 2017 I visited my family and rented a Cessna 172 and flew with an instructor for 75 minutes. I loved it! I've been living here in Buenos Aires for 17 years and have 2 English teaching companies. I learned to hang glide in San Diego in 1979-80 and loved it!! Ok have FUN flying and God bless you!!! Greg Janes
Wow!! I didnt know much about these so this was a MAJOR help!! Very interesting and the guy would make an excellent salesman for a future advanced GA airplane company.
Very fine young man, who is intelligent and has his head screwed on correctly. Congrats on your very nice Ercoupe. She sounded really good in the flyby. Nothing but tailwinds, and thanks for the great video.
This young man is no doubt going to have a big career in aviation as he advances in both his hours and his training. I see him as an airliner pilot or as a military aircraft pilot down the road as he ages. He's already an accomplished pilot for his age, has a wealth of knowledge of aviation already, and owns his own airplane at his young age. THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!
I’ve flown my Ercoupe around 1800 hours over the last 20 years and enjoyed them all. One little point of clarification- a C-85 “stroker” is actually a C-85 with an STC allowing for the installation of an O-200 crankshaft and pistons, which increases the power by 8 or 9 horsepower. Good job on the discussion!
I never got to fly an Ercoupe, so I learned a lot about it from this video. Also, I used to fly Cessna 140s with an 85 hp Continental, and they would cruise about the same speed as this Ercoupe.
@@AviationAZRancher The ERcoupe is much easier to land in a 30 mph crosswind! More fun to fly with windows down in my humble opinion. 2000 hours in Bonanzas. ERcoupe for fun beats the Bonanza hands down.
In a cross wind: land " crab" 👍 COOLEST Ercoupe I have seen ... I did not know about the placement of the fuel tanks, and ALWAYS liked a fuel bobber backed up by a manual stick! Just a COOL bird!!
Well done! That was a clear and interesting review, and you obviously know your stuff. With those unique controls, how different does it feel flying this machine, compared to a plane with normal controls? Do you feel that building time in an Ercoupe would actually create bad habits when you move on to other planes? How do you steer it when taxiing? What are those two large rectangular panels in the center of the instrument panel on each side? Thanks! Great video!
P-factor is a propeller effect, where the descending propeller blade produces more thrust due to its higher angle of attack and through gyroscoping precession, the thrust is translated to the right, yawing the plane left. The propeller slipstream spiralling around the fuselage, impacting the rudder, is called spiralling slipstream effect.
I loved my ERCOUPE. I had metalized wings. Would rather have had fabric, really, but I got the airplane for a great price. 12,500 dollars. That was in 1995. Was a good price, even then. I didn't have those glove boxes. My airplane didn't have it's original panel. Nice touch. It was a really fun airplane.
I got to fly in an Ercoupe once at the 1988 Ercoupe Meet at Ames, Iowa. I don't recall what particular year the aircraft was, but curiously it was modified with rudder pedals. Nice airplane and thanks for sharing and spotlighting this particular Ercoupe!
A side benefit of not having rudder pedals is that the Ercoupe can be flown by a paraplegic pilot. Dorine Bourneton has flown one in France for many years, I'm not sure if she still has it. I think she's also the world's first paraplegic aerobatic pilot (though probably not in her Ercoupe).
Pretty cool, dude. And lemme echo Susan Henry's comment that it's nice to see a young pilot who's so knowledgeable. Have fun, and please let us know when you start flying the Big Iron.
As a teenage member of the Civil Air patrol squadron based at Stinson Field on San Antonio's South side I often flew with CAPT Gonzalez in his Ercoupe. Fun aircraft, though not having rudder pedals it took me a while to get used to it. In South Texas we usually flew with the side windows down for ventilation!
Always loved the Ercoupe but didn't know it had un-coupled rudders, or an altitude compensating carburetor. Super-cool plane. Simple, easy-to-fly...you'd think there should be company bringing them back.
110mph cruise at a 5.5 gallon burn is amazingly good fuel economy great paint color as well buddy. What are those 2 strakes on the nose cowl? i havent noticed those on other Ercoupes before?
Thanks for the walk around. I learned a lot about this airplane that I did not know before. I was really drawn to this aircraft and was considering it as a first airplane, but the biggest drawback for me is the tendency of the airplane to glide like a brick which means your landing speeds have to be relatively high to keep the airplane flying onto the runway. Couldn’t you add a Venturi on the the outside of the fuselage to update the panel to include some gyro-based instruments?
Always our biggest concern as someone growing up in an Ercoupe family in the 1970's was and is the center section corrosion and weakness. If you decide to buy one. Make absolute sure that center section is inspected and repaired by a very experienced Ercoupe A&P. I nearly bought one in 2005. Bailed out of deal after flying to pick up. Guy sold plane to a young lady. 6 months latter at 1800 feet AGL. Doing some maneuvers the wings departed and the 23 year old CFI male and 17 year old lady fell to their deaths in Glendale California. I warned the seller and buyers father that this plane wasn't fit. Buyer beware.
What an awesome airplane.Maybe someday you can make an in flight cam video so we can be in the flight on it? Have to be a good pilot to fly that machine!
I've never owned a plane, can't fly one. Clicked on this because of the super paint job on the plane. I once had a 1967 Mercedes with a 21-gallon tank, so this having 24 gallons kind of frightened me. 😮
Love the Ercoupe video. A recent Luscombe post said each of the cloth wings are 26 pounds lighter than the aluminum covered wings. The same would approximately apply to the Ercoupe. Where was this video shot?
Actually you’re describing is spiraling slipstream. P factor has to do with the upswinging blade generating a different lift coefficient than the downswinging blade during high pitch operations which causes left turning tendency.
@@tomwilliams3783 You are correct, as the story goes two guys tried to get a Ercoupe to spin and they were successful to get it to spin but not successful to get it to stop. But the ground did!
Very unique airplane! It’s nice to see a young pilot so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about flying and his plane.
@@susanhenry7869 Yes!!!
Models C and CD are light enough to qualify to be flown by Sport Pilots, i.e., a maximum gross weight of 1320 lbs.
A very enjoyable tour of the Ercoupe.
@@trentdowler7443 Thank you!
That man knows his airplane! Great interview, thank you! Plus he makes me want one.
@@kirbyn2010 Yes!!!
Thank you so much for this walk around. It brought back some wonderful memories.My father owned one back in the late 60's and had it parked at Meadowlark Airfield in Orange County, CA (my parents had divorced) all of which are gone now. It had cloth-covered wings. I would spend a lot of time just cleaning and keeping everything shiny. I got to taxi it out on the tarmac once. Never got to fly in it. I lived in Bishop, CA., and joined the Civil Air Patrol as a stepping stone to getting a license but, the cost of lessons was beyond my means. I will be 70 in February 2025 and want to fly in one before leaving this earthly realm. Keeping my fingers crossed. Keep on flying and happy skies!
@@uldNdN70 Thanks for the great comment.
So many people make this mistake. Flying is available to people at low cost with ultralights and sport pilot.
Don't get trapped in the certificated flying thing, it's a money pit, CFIs are vultures
Great tour! When I first started flying at 16, there was a pilot at the airport who owned a polished all-aluminum Ercoupe. He had one arm, and his flying companion was a 3-legged dog who would easily, and eagerly, jump in the cockpit.
@@MaxEPR love it!!!
@@AviationAZRancher Hey, AZRancher! He was an OK Panhandle farmer and that's how he lost his arm. Not sure about the dog, but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't farm related, too. I'm AZ now, too!
When I was around 8 or 9 in the late 60’s, there was a lady that flew an Ercouoe out of the airport my dad flew out of. She had no legs and would roll out to the plane in her wheelchair. She’d preflight it and then climb up on the wing. She’d have someone there to roll her chair away and off she’d go. I asked my dad how she was able to fly it, that’s when I learned it had no rudder pedals. I always liked the thought of the sense of freedom it must have given her.
@ Yes. Thanks for the comment.
Such a sweet little airplane! I've worked on several (Canadian Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, ret.) and one of my best friends owned one.
They are ageless, timeless, and a ton of fun to fly! Long live the Ercoupe!! (And variants!) 👍
@@kbjerke Yes. I agree!!!
What a nice young guy and what a nice plane ! Bravo !
@@juteint4068 Thank you!
Nice! Guy really knows his airplane.
Yes he does.
Enjoyed your video, sir. My uncle ( a WW2 Navy veteran ) was home on leave and took my cousin and myself for a ride in a rented ercoupe). This was shortly after WW2. We were very young and shared the passenger seat. Still a very vivid memory of my uncle and the ride.
What a great memory!!!
Been a fan of the Ercoupe since the late seventies, this was the best informational video yet! great job, you taught be a few things I did not know!
Glad it was helpful!
Great to see youngsters knowing their stuff in aviation.
Yes.
Best walk around on an air coop I’ve ever seen in my life good job
@@leejackson6315 Thank you.
Thanks for sharing all about your plane!! Looks like you have a lot of fun flying it!! I grew up next to Montgomery Field airport in San Diego and went flying almost every day in the summer, asking the pilots if I could ride along. In 2017 I visited my family and rented a Cessna 172 and flew with an instructor for 75 minutes. I loved it! I've been living here in Buenos Aires for 17 years and have 2 English teaching companies. I learned to hang glide in San Diego in 1979-80 and loved it!! Ok have FUN flying and God bless you!!! Greg Janes
@@gregoriojanes2687 Thank you.
Awesome video, well spoken and knowledgeable pilot! 😊
@@jamesadams1360 Yes.
What a sharp looking aircraft! The color too, fantastic!
Enjoyed, thanks for sharing...
Thank you.
Great job BL! Glad to see you are flying :)
@@kimmiller7010 👍
I learned to fly in a 1946 415c ercoupe that I bought back in 1975, most fun little airplane
nice!
That Boy was born to speak Ercoupe !!! Great video!
@@lanceg.8458 Thanks
Beautiful bird! Kids like this give me hope!
@@thedolt9215 Yes
What a GREAT video! Thanks for sharing your ship with us!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing, definitely unique. Keep up the great content
@@AlphaKilo.Warrior Thanks
Wow!! I didnt know much about these so this was a MAJOR help!! Very interesting and the guy would make an excellent salesman for a future advanced GA airplane company.
Thanks
The Ercoupe has been my dream plane for years and sadly I’ve let so many pilots talk me out of buying one. Beautiful plane and great tour of yours.
@@Flying4Film Glad you enjoyed it!!
Very fine young man, who is intelligent and has his head screwed on correctly. Congrats on your very nice Ercoupe. She sounded really good in the flyby. Nothing but tailwinds, and thanks for the great video.
@@scotabot7826 Thank you.
enjoyed this very much.a friend of mine had one of these.he would take me up
with him.great little plane.i think most any one could fly it.thank you
@@Larry-jv6he Glad you enjoyed it!
This young man is no doubt going to have a big career in aviation as he advances in both his hours and his training. I see him as an airliner pilot or as a military aircraft pilot down the road as he ages. He's already an accomplished pilot for his age, has a wealth of knowledge of aviation already, and owns his own airplane at his young age. THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!
Yes.
Enjoyed your video. Nice Ercoupe!
@@brianlott7571 Thank you!!!
Great tour. Beautiful airplane.
@@sdstreiker Thanks.
This was extraordinary video. Makes me want Coup over my Luscombe. Totally enjoyed.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for this trip thru the Ercoupe!!
@@philhill184 Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Great presentation on the Ercoupe. I have only heard good things about this plane. You have a beautiful example of this plane. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
You haven't heard the truth.
Center section corrosion and weakness is a big, dangerous issue.
Cool little old school plane.. looks solid as hell too
@@mustangracer5124 Great airplane
I’ve flown my Ercoupe around 1800 hours over the last 20 years and enjoyed them all. One little point of clarification- a C-85 “stroker” is actually a
C-85 with an STC allowing for the installation of an O-200 crankshaft and pistons, which increases the power by 8 or 9 horsepower. Good job on the discussion!
@@lesnyd Thanks for that. I am learning a lot about these airplanes by putting out these videos and reading the comments.
Great ,thanks for walk around,she is a great looking plane mate
Glad you enjoyed it
VERY NICE! I really want an Ercoupe.
You and me both!😊
Throughly enjoyable video! Love your knowledge and enthusiasm.
@@tomcarr4630 Thank you
I never got to fly an Ercoupe, so I learned a lot about it from this video. Also, I used to fly Cessna 140s with an 85 hp Continental, and they would cruise about the same speed as this Ercoupe.
@@MalcolmRuthven Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@AviationAZRancher The ERcoupe is much easier to land in a 30 mph crosswind! More fun to fly with windows down in my humble opinion. 2000 hours in Bonanzas. ERcoupe for fun beats the Bonanza hands down.
@ Yes. 👍
Thanks for checking out the Ercoupe! I had a great time! - Ben
@@AceSimulations Thanks. Great airplane!
Excellent video!
@@PasleyAviationPhotography Thank you!
An old friend had one of these in the '80s. It was a lot of fun.
@@jimburig7064 Sounds fun.
In a cross wind: land " crab" 👍 COOLEST Ercoupe I have seen ... I did not know about the placement of the fuel tanks, and ALWAYS liked a fuel bobber backed up by a manual stick! Just a COOL bird!!
Glad you liked it!
Well done! That was a clear and interesting review, and you obviously know your stuff.
With those unique controls, how different does it feel flying this machine, compared to a plane with normal controls? Do you feel that building time in an Ercoupe would actually create bad habits when you move on to other planes?
How do you steer it when taxiing?
What are those two large rectangular panels in the center of the instrument panel on each side?
Thanks! Great video!
@KevinTKeith you “drive” it on the ground just like a car.
Nice looking plane!!!😊
@@PaulHilliard-yl7fm Thank you.
P-factor is a propeller effect, where the descending propeller blade produces more thrust due to its higher angle of attack and through gyroscoping precession, the thrust is translated to the right, yawing the plane left.
The propeller slipstream spiralling around the fuselage, impacting the rudder, is called spiralling slipstream effect.
@@fazole Yes.
Loved this.
@@abundantYOUniverse Glad you enjoyed it.
I loved my ERCOUPE. I had metalized wings. Would rather have had fabric, really, but I got the airplane for a great price. 12,500 dollars. That was in 1995. Was a good price, even then. I didn't have those glove boxes. My airplane didn't have it's original panel. Nice touch. It was a really fun airplane.
Thanks for sharing!
Nicely done!
@@JamesGood Thanks.
Great Joy at your success! 20 mpg sounds good for kind of a little hot rod.
@@johnhess351 Yes it is.
I got to fly in an Ercoupe once at the 1988 Ercoupe Meet at Ames, Iowa. I don't recall what particular year the aircraft was, but curiously it was modified with rudder pedals. Nice airplane and thanks for sharing and spotlighting this particular Ercoupe!
@@WAL_DC-6B Thanks
A side benefit of not having rudder pedals is that the Ercoupe can be flown by a paraplegic pilot. Dorine Bourneton has flown one in France for many years, I'm not sure if she still has it. I think she's also the world's first paraplegic aerobatic pilot (though probably not in her Ercoupe).
@@grantm6514 Thanks for sharing. 👍
The ercoupe I flew had a fuel guage on the port side near the floor. Very hard to read with a flashlight.
I loved the "coupe".
@@daveslifeover65 Thanks for the comment. 👍
Pretty cool, dude. And lemme echo Susan Henry's comment that it's nice to see a young pilot who's so knowledgeable. Have fun, and please let us know when you start flying the Big Iron.
@@JimmyTheBoomer Thank you!
Being a Cessna guy, used to laugh at Ercoupes. Then, my uncle bought one and I flew it and liked it. Decent climb too. =PC=
Very good.
As a teenage member of the Civil Air patrol squadron based at Stinson Field on San Antonio's South side I often flew with CAPT Gonzalez in his Ercoupe. Fun aircraft, though not having rudder pedals it took me a while to get used to it. In South Texas we usually flew with the side windows down for ventilation!
@@NavyCWO Thanks for sharing.
In the very early 1990s, there was a weekend fly-in of Ercoupes here in Newton Kansas. They were like the Corvettes of airplanes!
@@krazmokramer Nice!
Cool and great to see Sedona again! Laurie. NZ. 😊
@@LWJCarroll 👍
Always loved the Ercoupe but didn't know it had un-coupled rudders, or an altitude compensating carburetor. Super-cool plane. Simple, easy-to-fly...you'd think there should be company bringing them back.
@@PacificAirwave144 Yes
Great job on the overview! Very unique aircraft. Kinda curious about the useful load…
Good question!
Neat plane to fly- especially out of Sedona, AZ !
@@Dads39-ge2ye Yes.
110mph cruise at a 5.5 gallon burn is amazingly good fuel economy great paint color as well buddy. What are those 2 strakes on the nose cowl? i havent noticed those on other Ercoupes before?
Great point!
@@AviationAZRancher So you dont know what those strakes are on top the nose cowl?
@ No. But I will find out!
Thanks for the walk around. I learned a lot about this airplane that I did not know before. I was really drawn to this aircraft and was considering it as a first airplane, but the biggest drawback for me is the tendency of the airplane to glide like a brick which means your landing speeds have to be relatively high to keep the airplane flying onto the runway. Couldn’t you add a Venturi on the the outside of the fuselage to update the panel to include some gyro-based instruments?
Yes you could.
Always our biggest concern as someone growing up in an Ercoupe family in the 1970's was and is the center section corrosion and weakness.
If you decide to buy one. Make absolute sure that center section is inspected and repaired by a very experienced Ercoupe A&P.
I nearly bought one in 2005. Bailed out of deal after flying to pick up.
Guy sold plane to a young lady.
6 months latter at 1800 feet AGL. Doing some maneuvers the wings departed and the 23 year old CFI male and 17 year old lady fell to their deaths in Glendale California.
I warned the seller and buyers father that this plane wasn't fit.
Buyer beware.
Good info to know. Thanks
Nice! I like mine!
@@genechronister7085 Folks do love their Ercoupes. 👍
My dad used to tell me how strange it was to not have rudder pedals.
Yes
I have watched soooo much video about the er-coup. From what i have learned.. whole design was for safety.
Yes
LOVE IT!!
@@tripacer8259 Glad you enjoyed it
No rudder pedals makes a big difference. A woman named Jessica Cox uses a modified Ercoupe, and she is the first licensed pilot with no arms!
@@macmccune21 Yes. She is amazing.
What an awesome airplane.Maybe someday you can make an in flight cam video so we can be in the flight on it?
Have to be a good pilot to fly that machine!
@@beem6401 Glad you enjoyed it!!!
That was fun
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
After looking at this Aircraft in wonder🧐,I realized that the first time I saw an aircraft like this was in a James Bond Movie!
That’s cool!
My favorite GA plane
Glad you enjoyed it
Do people add extra fuel cells to extend range? That's such a reasonably sized plane that it's really tempting. Thanks for sharing!!
Great point!
I've never owned a plane, can't fly one. Clicked on this because of the super paint job on the plane. I once had a 1967 Mercedes with a 21-gallon tank, so this having 24 gallons kind of frightened me. 😮
@ You don’t have to be a Pilot to love airplanes. I’ve never drove a Indy car but I still love them. 😀
Love me a nice little Ercoupe.❤
@@charlesharper7292 Me too!
Love the Ercoupe video. A recent Luscombe post said each of the cloth wings are 26 pounds lighter than the aluminum covered wings. The same would approximately apply to the Ercoupe. Where was this video shot?
@@ralphstrahm4429 Sedona
Actually you’re describing is spiraling slipstream. P factor has to do with the upswinging blade generating a different lift coefficient than the downswinging blade during high pitch operations which causes left turning tendency.
@@petermerry6123 Yes.
It has a very uneak control linkage for the rudders also there are only 4 little ( i thank) 3/8s intch bolts holding the whole tail on the plane
Wow. I didn’t know that
8:21 - Interesting! I'm trying to get the flight model for this correct in X-Plane. I'll have to see about making the rudders behave this way.
I had a neighbor who had one in his shed. I know where another one was in a small village town, in a shed.
@@Rocketman88002 Cool.
How does it take lightning?
So how does it do in a cross wind landing?
Crab into the wind keeping wings level. When main gear touches down, let nose wheel drop and steer like a car. Easy peasy.
Brake with a T-bar handle near the mixture knob?
@@danielcarlson800 Starter
@@AviationAZRancher Copy!!!! 👍
@@danielcarlson800 I’ll have to go out and look at it???
Nice one. I own SN 3226.
@@joewilliams4142 Thanks. I think they are cool airplanes!!!
What airfield is this?
@@romandecaesar4782 Sedona AZ. KSEZ
AMAZING !!!!! Mickey Mouse Airplane , the best !!
They are very interesting airplanes for sure.
The Ercoupe was supposed to be spin proof, it's not but you have to screwup really bad to get one into spin!
Yes.
And good luck trying to recover from one without rudder pedals.
@@tomwilliams3783 You are correct, as the story goes two guys tried to get a Ercoupe to spin and they were successful to get it to spin but not successful to get it to stop. But the ground did!
I laughed out loud when you said you can trim the airplane by moving to one side or the other in the cockpit!! Is the red button on the yoke the horn?
@@chefduane3742 Red button is the push to talk. I like your horn comment better. 😂😂😂
@@AviationAZRancher Learned to fly at KFUL, 150's, 172's. Saw an Ercoupe there a few times but never got to see it up close. Thanks for the walkthru!!
I missed the magneto switch🤷♂️
Old guy I know where I live has 3-4 Ercoupes in his warehouse
@@nadenolam8368 Sounds like he’s cornering the Ercoupe market. 😂😂😂
@ he’s 86 years old and still thinks he’s going to restore them.
my daddy was born in 1933 and his daddy was a pilot and he said grandad had an Ecoupe and they would fly it everywhere,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
@@olskool3967 I love comments like that. Thank you.
At about 14:30 did you say "a stick of gum", or did you say "stick a gun"?? 😲 🙂
Haha, I said stick of gum but I suppose either works :)
My father owned one!
@@atticstattic Nice!
Very nice little plane….its not always about a fire breathing Merlin in the nose!😀
@@trappedinkalifornee Yep. I like all airplanes. I’ve said for years my favorite airplane is the one I am flying today. 😀
👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷
@@arivicente4912 Glad you enjoyed it
Love Sedona
Yes.
20 MPG - better than a Cessa 172 at 18 mpg?
P factor is NOT torque or spiral air flow. It is angle of attack of prop to relative wind. Torque ha s has little effect.
@@JohnW-gz4db Yes
No rudder pedals so you can’t slip or cross control.
@@shawnrobinson6535 Yes. Seems a bit odd doesn’t it?
Stop using the word BASICALLY ! Not needed in correct grammar…go back and listen to your audio, I’m a big Ercoupe fan and love your plane
Thanks for the comment. 👍
At least he’s not saying “like” every third word like most younger illiterate people. Basically.