Ercoupe History(of sorts)

[Lawreston]

Jill Wood Tallman posted this Link on the Babes and Airplanes board from which I've copied it to share here. Very Interesting!

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Buy-Your-Plane-at-Penneys-223975311.html?c=y&page=1must

HR

 

[el con]

Didn't I hear an Ercoupe was our first jet(assist aircraft) I read it somewhere but question the timing years wise.
Maybe it was non military.
Someone out there knows.

 

[docmirror]

Note the pic in the top of the story. You can tell it's a pub photo cause the plane is featured prominently. So - how did the kid get there? And the wife looks a bit chunky, so how did the woman, the man, and the picnic basket get there with any fuel in the plane?

I can't think of any version of any Ercoupe that would handle that loading.

 

[SoloEqs]

how did the woman, the man, and the picnic basket get there with any fuel in the plane?

Fuel? Do you SEE fuel . . ?

 

[tinerj]

Three people. It's a two seat plane. Or did they have a luggage compartment child seat?

I don't think the three people and fuel would make it over gross. Let's see, 416 lbs payload. Fuel (21 gal) = 126, man = 170, woman = 120, kid = 35. Total = 451; ok, cut back to 14 gal of fuel. That's still 2 hours with reserve.