Inflight Entertainment => There I was... => Topic started by: Zaffex on April 22, 2007, 01:18:27 AM
Title: Cub Sighting
Post by: Zaffex on April 22, 2007, 01:18:27 AM
Now I can die happy... ::angel::
Today was severe clear VFR. I was outside cleaning out the garage, when what to my wandering eyes should appear, but an aircraft flying low over the horizon - real low. And not just any aircraft, of course, but a Piper Cub, in all its low and slow glory. Just puttering along, enjoying the day. What a sight!
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Skygal on May 07, 2007, 08:12:22 PM
I hope it was painted yellow, as all cubs should be.
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Post by: airtac on May 08, 2007, 01:54:38 PM
I hope it was painted yellow, as all cubs should be.
And had 65 HP, as all cubs should be |:)\
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Post by: BrianGMFS on May 08, 2007, 05:29:38 PM
Got one even better.....
Sitting on the back deck of after dinner at a friends house located in the Champlain Islands of VT. I was enjoying a cold one and my ears picked up the destintive drone of a round engine (Radial) as over the trees at about 200 agl fly's a beautiful white and green Waco YMF Biplane, out for a cruise on a lovely late summer afternoon. And if you're up this way you too can fly in it.... http://www.northernlightsvermont.com/Waco.htm
Brian
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Post by: TheSoccerMom on May 08, 2007, 05:36:34 PM
Ahhhhhhhhh, sweeeeeet........... ;)
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: cj5_pilot on May 08, 2007, 09:01:25 PM
I've only seen a couple Cubs in Alaska. The garden variety "Cub" up here is red and white, at least 180 hp and wheels 28" or bigger--or is on floats or skis. Generally has at least one Kolpin "Gun boot" strapped to the wing struts.
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Post by: Fabo on May 10, 2007, 01:43:23 PM
Red and White... wasnt that Super Cub standart?
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: cj5_pilot on May 10, 2007, 07:05:36 PM
Today was severe clear VFR. I was outside cleaning out the garage, when what to my wandering eyes should appear, but an aircraft flying low over the horizon - real low. And not just any aircraft, of course, but a Piper Cub, in all its low and slow glory. Just puttering along, enjoying the day. What a sight!
Don't die until you have had a chance to fly one. A J3 Cub with the 65hp engine is an absolute delight to fly! Very few instruments, you just fly the wing by paying close attention to your horizon. I just wish I would have had more opportunity to fly one so I could have become satisfied with my landings in it (I only flew it once last year).
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: BrianGMFS on June 02, 2007, 01:44:15 AM
Ryan, one of my fellow Line rats at work, had his first flying lesson in a Clip Wing J-3 last weekend (his roomate is a pilot with my company and a CFI) All was going well and he was having a blast when all of a sudden they had a cockpit full of smoke ::eek:: they popped open the door and side window and realized that the oil cap had come off and oil was spraying down the fuselage and all over the exhaust. they immediately started to look for a field to put down in but all the fields had been recently plowed. So Chad (the CFI) told Ryan to hold it straight and level and Chad climbed halfway out of the cockpit and put the oil cap back on. The cap had come off after about 50 minutes of flight. Anyway they made it back to the airport fine and had only lost about a quart and a half . The plane needed a good wash though.
Brian
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: airtac on June 02, 2007, 01:55:18 AM
CLIMBED HALFWAY OUT OF COCKPIT--------- ::eek:: ::eek:: (somebody watched "never cry wolf" one too many times :D :D
Don't know if that was prudent ::sweat::
I have dead sticked an Aeronca defender into a plowed field after an engine shutdown and that prospect certainly scares me less than clambering around outside an airborne aircraft--- Yeah, and took off too out of the same plowed field after propping it.
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Frank N. O. on June 02, 2007, 07:13:23 AM
Ryan, one of my fellow Line rats at work, had his first flying lesson in a Clip Wing J-3 last weekend (his roomate is a pilot with my company and a CFI) All was going well and he was having a blast when all of a sudden they had a cockpit full of smoke ::eek:: they popped open the door and side window and realized that the oil cap had come off and oil was spraying down the fuselage and all over the exhaust. they immediately started to look for a field to put down in but all the fields had been recently plowed. So Chad (the CFI) told Ryan to hold it straight and level and Chad climbed halfway out of the cockpit and put the oil cap back on. The cap had come off after about 50 minutes of flight. Anyway they made it back to the airport fine and had only lost about a quart and a half . The plane needed a good wash though.
Brian
::unbelieveable:: any pictures of the plane before wash?
Frank
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: BrianGMFS on June 02, 2007, 01:10:15 PM
I gotta see if Chad can e-mail it to me.... he took a couple of shots with his phone.
Brian
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Fabo on June 02, 2007, 03:15:49 PM
And I thought it was bad enough, when oil started to drop fro the engine of ASu-31M as they were winding up prop today :) Oooh the sound of air being pressed into cylinders of this M-14PF 400hp radial engine.. I was in heaven standing about 3 meters from it... after watching entire process of getting in the plane and being sealed into "Zvezda" ejection seat taking some 10 minutes :)
Please dont kill me for saying I have left my camera at home.
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Zaffex on June 02, 2007, 05:08:55 PM
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?
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Post by: tundra_flier on June 03, 2007, 07:13:11 AM
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?
Don't know about that, but I don't remember now if it was Bob Hover, or Bob Reeve that he and his partner used to do mid air refueling in their Aeronca, A C-3 if memory still functions this late at night. One would fly and the other would step out on the strut to pore fuel from a can into the header tank.
I also got to ride with a 7AC pilot on his way to OSH one year who showed me how he transfered fuel. Apparently the J-3's he was traveling with had just a bit more range. so he had a can in the back seat and hand pump strapped to the side of the cockpit. He'd reach through the side window, stick the hose in the header tank, then pump the fuel in. gotta love those old planes. ::drinking::
Phil
P.S. Check out my last post in "life through your Camera"
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: cj5_pilot on June 22, 2007, 07:12:54 AM
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?
Don't know about that, but I don't remember now if it was Bob Hover, or Bob Reeve that he and his partner used to do mid air refueling in their Aeronca, A C-3 if memory still functions this late at night. One would fly and the other would step out on the strut to pore fuel from a can into the header tank.
I also got to ride with a 7AC pilot on his way to OSH one year who showed me how he transfered fuel. Apparently the J-3's he was traveling with had just a bit more range. so he had a can in the back seat and hand pump strapped to the side of the cockpit. He'd reach through the side window, stick the hose in the header tank, then pump the fuel in. gotta love those old planes. ::drinking::
Phil
P.S. Check out my last post in "life through your Camera"
Wasn't Bob Reeve, he flew Fairchilds and didn't have any partners...though Don Sheldon WAS his son in law :P
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Baron15 on July 13, 2007, 07:02:54 AM
This was at the airport awhile ago. Looked weird from a distance so I went to take a look, has a 55gallon or so tank added on the bottom and several radios. I found out that the guy that owns it has done just about everything and now does fish spotting in the plane.
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?
Don't know about that, but I don't remember now if it was Bob Hover, or Bob Reeve that he and his partner used to do mid air refueling in their Aeronca, A C-3 if memory still functions this late at night. One would fly and the other would step out on the strut to pore fuel from a can into the header tank.
I also got to ride with a 7AC pilot on his way to OSH one year who showed me how he transfered fuel. Apparently the J-3's he was traveling with had just a bit more range. so he had a can in the back seat and hand pump strapped to the side of the cockpit. He'd reach through the side window, stick the hose in the header tank, then pump the fuel in. gotta love those old planes. ::drinking::
Phil
P.S. Check out my last post in "life through your Camera"
Can you get an STC for that?
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: airtac on July 26, 2007, 07:24:24 AM
They were spotting flying fishes that day ::rofl::
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on July 26, 2007, 05:21:03 PM
They were spotting flying fishes that day ::rofl::
I've heard of rhem killing speedboaters.
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: tundra_flier on August 22, 2007, 11:39:06 PM
Actually, I don't think that's damage. The transition from the leading edge to the tip bow in a super cub is not the most elegant thing.
Phil
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: want2fly on August 23, 2007, 12:09:41 PM
Is it worth just going up in a J-3 Cub?
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: want2fly on August 24, 2007, 11:53:20 AM
well of course it is always worth going up, but is it worth taking time to tryout a J-3 and see how aviation was?
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Post by: cj5_pilot on October 12, 2007, 01:08:51 AM
Doggone it! I can't find that pic of the Super Cub on Tundra Tires with the 50 gallon Propane tank slung below the fuselage. Gotta love Alaska's exception for external loads!
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: TheSoccerMom on October 12, 2007, 03:58:08 AM
Talk about your external loads.... on airplanes, that is...
I've heard some wild northern tales of coffins, dead bodies (frozen), and the like..... ::unbelieveable::
Gotta love Alaska........... ::eek::
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: gibbo_335 on October 12, 2007, 07:32:27 PM
well of course it is always worth going up, but is it worth taking time to tryout a J-3 and see how aviation was?
Its worth every penny, Wantofly. I went up in a J-3 last summer. I had a blast, and I learned alot. That is just a doggone fun airplane to fly!
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Oddball on December 31, 2007, 06:37:36 PM
last cub i saw was on fire and i had just chopped the tail off to stick it onto a piece of plastic square section drain pipe ::rofl:: ::rofl::
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: TheSoccerMom on January 08, 2008, 09:01:36 AM
I'm getting to see one slowly, very slowly, start to take shape as it is rebuilt here...... yesterday the mechanic was here for more welding... this will take many months, I'm guessing, but I hope I can see it as it turns back into an airplane. |:)\
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Oddball on January 08, 2008, 09:06:28 AM
is he going to do the covering himself? that will be a pain
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Post by: TheSoccerMom on January 08, 2008, 09:09:12 AM
Yup I believe the plan is for him to do everything. He's the guy who got her all gorgeous and fine-tuned BEFORE she wrecked. He showed me the "before" pictures yesterday... wowwww... so pretty!
So... I hope to get to see it....
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Oddball on January 08, 2008, 01:47:04 PM
saw a tv show over here a few years back called salvage squad restoring a DeHaviland Moth or was it a gypsy moth ::thinking:: anyway thats not important but i saw them recovering the wings and that looked a right pain in the rear
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: airtac on January 08, 2008, 03:20:31 PM
I helped re-cover a couple of Champs and it's really not bad if you know how--I was just assisting a very knowledgeable mechanic who made it look easy |:)\
We used buterate dope which can be quite an experience in itself ::silly:: ::knockedout::
Title: Re: Cub Sighting
Post by: Oddball on January 08, 2008, 09:17:05 PM
control line is still around, still use balsa dope and tissue paper but i use a heat shrink covering called solar text or solar film
