Hey Guest!
Hey - did you know if you click on the title of a thread it will take you to the first unread post since you last visited that thread?
but were afraid to ask: 
STOP!! Never post your email address in open forums. Bots can "harvest" your email! If you must share your email use a Private Message or use the 
smilie in place of the real @
Pretty Please - add it to our Events forum(s) and add to the calendar! >> 
jsneddon
Jedi Knight
Offline
If you happen to be in the St Louis area....
On Friday Sept 10th the Ercoupe Owner's association is having a convention in Mt Vernon IL.
My old man is partners with a buddy in an Ercoupe and they have worked out a deal with the local authorities and a helicopter pilot to do a fly-by of the arch and take photos of the planes as they pass in front of it at 600 feet.
So if you are in the area on friday somewhere between 11:30 and 12:30 take a look up. There should be about 20 of these planes flying by in a line. Dad set up the route and picked out the landmarks for the turns. They are going to fly from Mt Vernon west and go north of the Scott AFB Class A stuff and hang a left over the Mississipi after they pass over the Gateway International race track in East St Louis and then keep under 1000 feet to skirt the STL Class A at Lambert.
Ercoupes are interesting little planes. Two-seater low-wing with a bubble canopy (that you can open while flying to get that bugs in your teeth experience). The company thought they were going to make a killing with these after WWII with all the trained pilots out there but it never translated into success. They even tried to sell them in upscale Men's departments at Macy's and the like. I kind of think of them as spridgets with wings: small, light, pretty cheap, slower than the big boys, but more fun than should be allowed.
Sounds like it might be a neat sight.
More info here:
https://www.ercoupe.org/2010%20Convention.html
On Friday Sept 10th the Ercoupe Owner's association is having a convention in Mt Vernon IL.
My old man is partners with a buddy in an Ercoupe and they have worked out a deal with the local authorities and a helicopter pilot to do a fly-by of the arch and take photos of the planes as they pass in front of it at 600 feet.
So if you are in the area on friday somewhere between 11:30 and 12:30 take a look up. There should be about 20 of these planes flying by in a line. Dad set up the route and picked out the landmarks for the turns. They are going to fly from Mt Vernon west and go north of the Scott AFB Class A stuff and hang a left over the Mississipi after they pass over the Gateway International race track in East St Louis and then keep under 1000 feet to skirt the STL Class A at Lambert.
Ercoupes are interesting little planes. Two-seater low-wing with a bubble canopy (that you can open while flying to get that bugs in your teeth experience). The company thought they were going to make a killing with these after WWII with all the trained pilots out there but it never translated into success. They even tried to sell them in upscale Men's departments at Macy's and the like. I kind of think of them as spridgets with wings: small, light, pretty cheap, slower than the big boys, but more fun than should be allowed.
Sounds like it might be a neat sight.
More info here:
https://www.ercoupe.org/2010%20Convention.html
