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November 2020

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I can definitely happen. One hot summer day, while doing touch and gos in an Ercoupe, I had almost rolled to a stop. As I advanced the throttle to follow through, I went through a dust devil. It picked up the Ercoupe’s mains off the ground, tail high, nose still on the runway, and turned us about 60 degrees before we dropped back down. I was really glad it happened on the runway and not on sort final or after liftoff.

November 2020

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Restored C140, on taxiway, caught by dust devil, ground loop, prop strike. KTRM circa 2002.

November 2020

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Hi Russ,
Just a minor typo in the article, Gibbons is about 20 miles north of Edmonton (as crow flies) not the stated 200 miles

Cheers
Tim