Eddym

acdii
Thanks I need to balance this one next. Didn't think the GP unit would cut it. I plan on building a Vanessa rig

Clavin01

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Thank You Cub Man

52larry52

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bigbird3, So why is it your not flying in yesterday's photo? According to the windsock the wind is blowing straight down the runway, no crosswind landing issues, maybe just a "little" strong on the wind speed (the sock is straight out !), but hay the sun is out.

bigbird3

Just thot I'd see if I could spark some jealous envy! Since my wife has restless leg syndrom, I now have my own bedroom! It's the one I always wanted as a kid. I guess it's true what they say, IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD!!!!!!
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Super08

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Problem, did someone mention having a problem?

TonyBuilder

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The Austin Radio Control Asotiation is proude to present the first annual Cubs n' Cousins fly in.
This has been a low key event with a bunch of cub flyers getting together for a fun day of high winged flying.
This year it is a AMA sanctioned event as it has been growing, and will be a blast to see all thoes Cubs on the flight line.



Come and join the fun, we will be raffleing off a Eflight carbon z cub BNF
all high winged cousins of any size are welcome to join the Cubs in flight.

TB

bigbird3

You know, with a little better space management you could get a lot moe in there! LOL!
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Super08

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I already have

I just finished a Pilot Sport 88 and I am currently working on a 168" Aeroworks Carbon Cub. To make it worse I have about 7 or 8 ARF's downstairs nib and about 10 kits. My friend has about 120+ kits stacked up in his basement. He has more planes in stock than most hobby shops. Here is the Cub I just started yesterday.

Super08

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BTW is that an original Goldberg Falcon 56 I spy in there? If so that was the first RC plane I ever bought back in the 70's.

acdii

HAHA I had to buy a trailer to store my planes, and now with more room I have even more planes in my shop.

Corsair2013

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Nice plane Super -

Also nice stock of OS motors............ LOL

Keith

John_M_

Nice looking carbon cub 08... the second image, the one with the wing panel as big as the door, that's a big boy alright ... I keep eyeing that Poalo 1/3 L4 kit... the wife caught me browsing his web site a while back, she asked me over my shoulder what I would do with such a big plane, I just turned to her with a big smile on my face.. she said then why don't you get it... I was afraid to show her the price, but boy would I luv to do it... I may bite the bullet after I get my J3 done, hell whats life for if you can't enjoy it..

BTW, I like the red / what color scheme... with the tinted windows, it really looks classy.



John M,

bigbird3

No, it is the mark ll, the original one was my second plane in 65! Made one round and strait in on asphalt! 27meg. reeds. First plane was the 'sky pen' AKA Midwest 'Esquire', have one now, electric.
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John_M_

Damn!... bird, those were the days when you brought a trash bag to the run way with you, because of the odds of needing it were high,


John M,

bigbird3

Nope! We had a burn barrel! Airplane creamatorium! Ambroid glue and 24 hr epoxy! There was no fast glue! Silk and dope, monocote had just hit the market, didn't know a thing about it! We were in Japan with my dad in the airforce, our second tour!
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Clavin01

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Hello All
Here is a Photo of 3 of my Cubs, Have 3 others but no Pics
Left is a Goldberg with Saito GK
Center is a E-Flite Super Cub with Lighting system
Right is my new Cub a Hanger 9 with 100 Inch Wing with Twin Saito with Glo driver

John_M_

We never had a burn barrel, but there were quite a few broken models stuffed into the trash bins at the end of the weekends.

Those must have been interesting times while in Japan as a youngster.

Back when I was a kid, all we could afford was free-flight models... my dad built me a 049 (golden bee) powered Super Sniffer... we were out in the farm fields flying it one weekend, when all of a sudden, this rather large RC plane just landed about 100 feet or so away from where we stood... from a distance this gentlemen slowly walked over from a far, oh at least 100 yards... when he arrived, he thanked us for not tampering with it and said he had a dead stick and couldn't make it back to the rwy... back then I didn't know what dead stick meant, because our engines always quit mid flight... anyways he removed the hatch to turn the radio off, and to my surprise, the fuselage was stuffed with about 8 of the old silver Every Ready "D" sized batteries; you know the ones with the leaping cat through the # 9 (9 lives).... that image has always stood in my mind over the years, people today are so weight conscious... back in those days, 8 "D" cells were fairly heavy... after chatting with this gentlemen for a few minutes, my dad and him reminiscing about the single channel vacuum tube radios, and how vibration and hard landings would cause the filaments to break in the vacuum tubes... we walked back to the field with him, when we got there and I saw all these RC planes, it was a whole new world for me, I was so intrigued with RC... we did the "U" control line stuff, but I got bored with going around in a circle, so free flight was more enjoyable in that sense... I kept on to my dad about getting an RC plane, but it wasn't until I was 9 or 10, before we got our first RC, 1/2a two channel, lol... those were good times... just something about being a kid and flying model planes, it was like being in an imaginary world.


John M,

spaceworm

Hi Calvin. My H9 100 inch Cub has a YS F-120. I have a Saito 130t in a 1/4 Sig Spacewalker. What Saito twin is in you H9 Cub?

Sincerely, Richard

WacoNut

A buddy in my club has one with the same scheme. I believe he has a DA150 for power. the plane fly's really nice. He picked it up 2nd hand never flown. The original owner was afraid to fly it after putting it together.

bobbailey

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Id like to join cub brotherhood. Had a goldberg for 20 years and wore out 2 saito 65 on it. Recovered in olive and invasion stripes. Flew great until an aerobatic giant ate it up!! Now have H9 100 inch with g26. Love it.

John_M_

That is interesting... I wonder what he was frighten of... the bigger they are the better they fly, IMO... I was a bit nerves with the first flight of my 1/4 cub, but once it left the ground and I made the first turn, I realized it flew itself for the most part... maybe it was the engine a prop that got him concerned, but he scared himself right out of a nice plane, lol


John M,

Super08

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Hard to say why he wouldn't, some people get cold feet with how much money is tied up in a big plane. The Carbon Cub is actually made for a 100-120cc engine but a 150 fits. With the 150 it makes an incredible tow plane and when the plane was designed they purposely made the placement of the firewall and width of the cowl with the option for people to put a 150 in it. It isn't something they advertise though as some common sense is required and they didn't need countless warranty claims by people blowing it apart in the air.

John_M_

That already happened to someone on the forums here... had a 150 in it and basically pulled the wing strut mounding blocks out of the wings... no support was offered because it was suspected of being flown outside of its designed airspeed parameters... I think they did offer him a discount on a replacement... he showed some images of the damage... the only thing that had me concerned was the way the strut mounting block were designed... they basically spanned across two ribs, and the ribs were notched to accept the blocks.... it relies totally on the glue to hold the blocks to the wing structure, and there was no capturing of the main spars like with the sig cub, where the strut mount is sandwiched between the lower spars... the hanger 9 super cub is the same as the aeroworks design.


John M,

Super08

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Yes there were a bunch of failures with the first batch of planes, even ones that were not over powered. They had to revise how the inner structure of the wing held the struts on. There are a bunch of videos of a guy with a blue one that flew the living heck out of it for over a year. Flew it harder than most people would be capable of. He finally ripped the wing off of it but it wasn't the struts that failed. The whole top of the fuselage ripped off with the wing tube. The caught it on video. Looked pretty spectacular. I will see if I can find it later and post a link.

Super08

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I found the final fight. If you pause it at 3:21 you can see how the wing ripped off with the struts still attached to the wing. They story was the fuselage failed first and then the struts broke free of the fuselage. Either way he is an amazingly talented pilot. The plane was just not up to that kind of abuse day after day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r4moKtCJPw