ORIGINAL: cubcrasher
Gerry
That's a nice lookin' cub you got there. Maby '' fly scale' was not the proper word to use. You were right
about full size cubs having all kinds of power plants bolted to the firewall. Your 1/4 scale with the quardra 42
and my sig 1/4 scale with the magnum 91 shows that you can do the same thing with models. It's fun to fly too.
Some like em' with a lot of power some don't.
R.L.
cub brother #31
Thank you! Believe it or not, I built that model 22 years ago. Not shown in the picture are the struts. When I built the model, we only had regular servos, and we had to put them close to the receiver. That changed as i moved them to the tail where they help offset the chunk of metal under the cowling. Also it had a goofy servo placement in the wing. Again, we could not use long leads for the servos due to interference:-) So I repaired some wood, recovered w/21 Century fabric white, added a dashboard and a pilot, and she looks new.
I have a clipped wing that will be turned into a acrobatic demon this winter. I will power it with a 1.6 motor, on 8 cells, for unlimited vertical performance. Yes, I flew the 1:1 scale J-3, PA12 and PA11 and I can fly scale like when I feel like it. And I enjoy it, sometimes:-)
Of course i would not recommend the Q42 for a cub, but it flies great, and it glides great (big wing area). If I would build a gas powered 1/4 scale cub now, I would use a 30 gasser in it. My cub is a "hybryd" looks like a Super cub but has no flaps as it is the J-3 kit "dressed up" as a PA18
Gerry