Remove Stability Remove Transponder Remove Weight-Shift-Control
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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

Lets go back to that time in postwar GA when the sands shifted quickly. The Ercoupe was designed with only two controls, roll and pitch, so it couldnt be kicked out in a crosswindit had to withstand landing in a crab. Thorp joined the Piper design team during the Cherokees development; his own Sky Scooter used a stabilator.