Younkin Mullicoupe down

[Charles Neely]

recieved this from a friend just a few minutes ago. Scary and depressing, but young pilot appears to be ok.

http://www.kfsm.com/kfsm-news-nwa-siloa ... 2638.story

[Obergrafeter]

Whoa!!! Look at how short those wings are. Probably has the glide ratio of an anvil.

[Charles Neely]

Any worse than a clip wing Monocoupe???

[Kyleb]

Any worse than a clip wing Monocoupe???

On another board, Doug Rozendal reported that he'd flown the airplane and used 100 mph on approach and a fair amount of power. Without the power, he thought it would have a big sink rate.

The point is, this isn't an airplane you're gonna land at low speed and with a low sink rate if the fan stops...

[bdk]

Just goes to show you that a controlled landing is typically survivable in a light aircraft.

[wacoykc]

Definately worse than a Clip-wing as it weighs alot more with the 450 Pratt. Not a good airplane to make a forced landing in but I am glad he basically walked away from it. This was one of three built by his grandfather Jim Younkin. One belonged to the late Bud Dake who was killed in his clip-wing Monocoupe. Now owned by Mark Holiday in MN. The other is owned by Red Lerille in Louisianna.

[Dave Hadfield]

Holy Mackerel! 450 in that little thing? With clipped wings?

I assumed it was probably a Warner.

The torque and assymetric effects must be huge.

Dave

[Wheels up]

Definately worse than a Clip-wing as it weighs alot more with the 450 Pratt. Not a good airplane to make a forced landing in but I am glad he basically walked away from it. This was one of three built by his grandfather Jim Younkin. One belonged to the late Bud Dake who was killed in his clip-wing Monocoupe. Now owned by Mark Holiday in MN. The other is owned by Red Lerille in Louisianna.

There is a 4th. For a look at the construction as well as some history and pic's of the folks behind these hotrods......

STEINAIR MULLICOUPE

[Canso42]

How is Younkin doing? Mullicoupes are something I've heard of but that's the limit of my knowledge. I did look at the Steinar site and saw a familiar a/c. I have an a2a photo of the Mystery Ship on my wall from a 1984 vintage av. calendar I found in some old junk my dad was tossing out.

blues skies
'the other Doug R.'

[airknocker]

Here is Budd Davisson's article that explains the Mullicoupe.
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepMullicoupe.html