Cub stuff

I’m sure they would hold but they were not pretty. If I had one in pieces I would think about getting some bits re-done. My local welder was tut-tutting away furiously.

Mind you, I wouldn’t say no to a go in one.

Melv

Neither would I, even if helicopters are a totally unnatural way of flying.(oops, sorry. I’ve just realised we’re talking different machines.)

Brave, very brave 😮

The aforementioned manufacturer is famously litigious.

Moggy

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Are they allowed to sue me for telling the truth abouth the cr*p welding on their self propelled flying goldfish bowls? What I mean is that their welding looks like a welding apprentice’s test piece.

Oh, you mean the welding looks like pigeon sh*t? just like a Scweizer then

I’m sure they would hold but they were not pretty. If I had one in pieces I would think about getting some bits re-done. My local welder was tut-tutting away furiously.

Mind you, I wouldn’t say no to a go in one.

Melv

Oh, you mean the welding looks like pigeon sh*t? just like a Schweizer then

Brave, very brave 😮

The aforementioned manufacturer is famously litigious.

Moggy

Views expressed on this forum are strictly those of the poster and have nothing to do with the moderators 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Oh, you mean the welding looks like pigeon sh*t? just like a Scweizer then

Oh I say Mildred, Look at that, a pregnant Piper Cub 😀

Great aeroplanes but the build quality can suck. Saw one that had been bent when it was being fixed and the welds looked like blu-tak!

Melv

*cough, cough* Faster, better climb and more room :p

Oh I say Mildred, Look at that, a pregnant Piper Cub 😀

Does anyone know if any full size J-3s are still being produced?

These people do, in effect, but they don’t call it a J-3, it’s a “Sport Trainer”. You can have some not very J-3-like options, like up to 150hp, but then adding power is what people like to do in the USA.

I remember thumbing through Janes All The Worlds Aircraft a few years back and saw that some 3/4 scale J-3 cubs were being manufactured as kit planes. Does anyone know if any full size J-3s are still being produced?

I will relate a Cub story, which was told to me by a friend of the pilot involved, with no added embellishment, apparently.

A keen young aviator (pilot X ), tired of the assorted tin-ware of his flying club, decides to extend his aeronautical capabilities to include tail-draggers, and in short order, gets checked out and signed off.

His happiness is complete when shortly after, the club acquires a newly-rebuilt and very smart Super-Cub, so pristine in appearance, that the word ‘Super’ hardly does it justice. As is the way with a new toy, it is jealously guarded, and it seems that the CFI will never allow the cherished machine to be mauled by less tutored hands than his own.

Eventually, though, weeks of pleading and persuasion pay off, and our pilot is finally checked out on the Cub, to the satisfaction of all. However, he soon tires of circuits, and hatches a plan to go a bit further afield, not to some humble farm-strip, but a proper airport, where being a pilot actually means something. The CFI listens to this plan with grave suspicion, his unease barely concealed, yet he cannot state a particular reason why this flight should not go ahead.

No sooner said than done, charts appear, lines are drawn, frequencies checked and all systems go. A final plea by the CFI to take a Cessna instead of the Cub falls on deaf ears, and before he can think of any more objections, he is watching the Cub fade to a distant speck. As it happens, the flight goes without a hitch, a beautiful landing is achieved, and the little Cub is admired by all, as it taxies in to park in front of what passes for a terminal.

Glowing with satisfaction, our pilot goes through the formalities of arrival, and decides to reward himself with a visit to the cafe, the large window of which overlooks his parking spot. As he reclines, tea in hand, he has time to appreciate the hustle and bustle of this busy place, so different from his dozy club. Aeroplanes large and small taxy past, and a large turbo-prop moves onto the apron opposite his Cub. All around, planes are moving……including the Cub. Slowly at first, but with gathering speed, the runaway aeroplane expands in his view, approaching backwards to almost the very window where he sits. Paralysed with horror, he can only gape as, with a muffled thump, the rudder crunches into the side of the building.

SCENE 2

A busy day draws to a close at a small country airfield, and aeroplanes disappear into hangars. A taxi approaches the flying club, and draws to a halt. The CFI, recognising the figure emerging from the taxi, steps out of his office and greets him, remarking that he had not realised pilot X had already returned from the trip, and then inquiring how it had all gone. Hesitating to reply, the pilot goes to the rear of the taxi, and from the boot pulls out a very mangled rudder. The exact response of the CFI is not recorded, but is open to speculation!

getting a new tower is the way i am going to go, a mate at work builds them and configures them to the individuals needs, about £250 is his starting price so i’ll be getting him to build one for me, won’t be or a while yet though because i have quite a few overheads at the moment and i won’t be getting a basic one.
cheers for the advice.
Greg

Build an upgrade yourself (I know Moggy does). There’s always some salvagable parts from your old system even if it’s only the case, monitor, CDROM and floppy drive. Usually can get something half decent for under £300.

FLYER FS reviewer
(and there’s another thing I haven’t done!)

Hi Bluerobin, i’m stuck with 2000 cos thats about the limit or this piece of crud computer, have a copy of 2004 at a mates house ready for when i upgrade,
the other problem is all the extra aircraft that i have got on this pc for fs2000, they probably won’t be any good for 2004 :confused:
Greg

FS2000? Don’t you need a supercomputer to run that? 😉

FS2004 has a lovely little J3 that comes supplied.

Hmmmm all his cubbery has gotten me hankering to have a flight in one, trouble is i am stuck to flying a desk with flight sim 2000 at the moment 🙁 . still, off to simviation to see if they have one for download.
Greg

Extraneous Apostrophe sounds like an early 1970s ‘progressive’-rock band

Melv

It’s OK, I’ve fixed it. One of the perks of being a moderator. 😀

Moggy

You forgot the address the missing hyphen in “FI-style”

Pedant-in-Chief

Now that is obscure. Do hyphens have addresses?

Shall we go back to tormenting ‘Jane’ over at the other place.

Moggy

You forgot the address the missing hyphen in “FI-style”

Pedant-in-Chief

Well it would have been if that extraneous apostrophe hadn’t crept in from somewhere. 😡

Moggy

Extraneous Apostrophe sounds like an early 1970s ‘progressive’-rock band

Melv

Well it would have been if that extraneous apostrophe hadn’t crept in from somewhere. 😡

Moggy