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Old 01-24-2011 | 09:24 AM
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Default RE: Conversion of CG Piper Cub to Tri Gear???

I did a CG Cub on tri gear about 20 years ago. I had a small (for the time) Sony 8mm video camera that I wanted a platform for, so I built a full-length wing and added cf strips top and bottom to the spar. Substituted window glass for the windshield, OS 61SF for power, camera fully inside the fuse and looking right thru the prop arc like the pilot would....

At the time, I worked as a retail sales manager of a local consumer electronics store. We had a wall of big screens, all fed from a rack of video players. I'd pop the tape in there and it would play on all the big screens. People would lean in the turns so far they'd sometimes loose their balance....