This months aircraft is the ERCO Ercoupe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO_Ercoupe
On my commute to work I listen to a lot of audio books on Audible, the current book I’m on is Sam Walton made in America (the auto biography of the man who started Walmart)
I was surprised to how much of a role general aviation played in his success in building one of the largest and most profitable companies on the planet. He got his pilots license and the first aircraft he bought for business travel was a Ercoupe N2278H
He not only used general aviation as a faster and more efficient commuting method to check in on his stores he also used it as aerial scouting for new sites for stores decades before internet sites like google earth / maps and real estate sites.
Another connection to the Ercoupe is Fred Weick, who deigned this aircraft for ERCO in 1936. Fred later went on to Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach where he went on to be the lead designer in the Cherokee series. I worked at the same plant from 2005 – 2008 on many of his designs.
Ercoupe’s are still a viable & low cost option today for general aviation. Airworthy examples can be found below $20K
https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?make=ERCOUPE&s-type=aircraft
https://www.barnstormers.com/listing.php?catid=20352
For the RC community Outerzone has a bunch of options:
https://outerzone.co.uk/search/results.asp?keyword=ercoupe
Many of these are from the 40’s-60′ and original designed for free flight but with today’s modern electric motors and micro servos they could easily become RC aircraft.
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