Who Makes The Best Cub?
10-20-2003 | 05:55 PM
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Who Makes The Best Cub?
Just curious, who do you think makes the best cub KIT.
I've looked at Great Planes, Sig, and Goldberg. Sig makes two, 1/5scale, and one slightly smaller.
Good things..Sig kit is cheaper...there are two choices
Great Planes kit....I'v seen one, and they fly great, and are easy to build,
according to what I have heard
Goldberg....I don't know anything about it. Need input
I would like to hear ...How easy they are to build....how well they fly....what is good or bad, and would love to see pics.
Also if there is a different cub kit that you like, and is better, tell me. thanks
oh ya, I have a 46FX that would power it, and I don't want an arf. Don't forget pics!
I've looked at Great Planes, Sig, and Goldberg. Sig makes two, 1/5scale, and one slightly smaller.
Good things..Sig kit is cheaper...there are two choices
Great Planes kit....I'v seen one, and they fly great, and are easy to build,
according to what I have heard
Goldberg....I don't know anything about it. Need input
I would like to hear ...How easy they are to build....how well they fly....what is good or bad, and would love to see pics.
Also if there is a different cub kit that you like, and is better, tell me. thanks
oh ya, I have a 46FX that would power it, and I don't want an arf. Don't forget pics!
10-20-2003 | 07:02 PM
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RE: Who Makes The Best Cub?
Had a Sig and a Great Planes.
The Sig is a more complex kit- for the craftsman. I seem to remember cutting plenty of wood for that kit. The GP went together real easy and is a better floater than the Sig (possibly due to my building skills 20 years ago on the Sig)
The GP has a better cowl, windows, landing gear (lots of wire bending and welding and/or silver soldering on the sig gear- although you ended up with a more scale-like setup)
Between the two, I'd go with the GP. Goes together quicker. Flys better than any trainer with a .45. Plenty of room to hide the guts if you want to do a "scale-ish" interior.
Here's some pics before the cartwheel landing.[:@]
Tom
www.poconopa.com/cub2.jpg
www.poconopa.com/cub-engine1.jpg
www.poconopa.com/cub-bot.jpg
The Sig is a more complex kit- for the craftsman. I seem to remember cutting plenty of wood for that kit. The GP went together real easy and is a better floater than the Sig (possibly due to my building skills 20 years ago on the Sig)
The GP has a better cowl, windows, landing gear (lots of wire bending and welding and/or silver soldering on the sig gear- although you ended up with a more scale-like setup)
Between the two, I'd go with the GP. Goes together quicker. Flys better than any trainer with a .45. Plenty of room to hide the guts if you want to do a "scale-ish" interior.
Here's some pics before the cartwheel landing.[:@]
Tom
www.poconopa.com/cub2.jpg
www.poconopa.com/cub-engine1.jpg
www.poconopa.com/cub-bot.jpg
10-21-2003 | 06:44 AM
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RE: Who Makes The Best Cub?
I really like the Goldberg cub. I've had 3 of them, and still have one kicking around. Build it with the clipped wing. It will still float like a butterfly, but it will also hold its own with the aerobats. Easy assembly too!
10-21-2003 | 11:37 AM
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RE: Who Makes The Best Cub?
I have flown many of them, sig, goldberg, great planes, and balsa USA big one.
The goldberg is by far the best flyer. The great planes would be next and the sig my last choice. I have flown probably 20 different goldberg kits, and every one flew awsome, not one, even the one that was built really poorly had any bad flight traits. I have only flown one great planes, and it wasn't bad, but not as nice as the goldberg. I have flown about 4 sig cubs, 2 were ok, and 2 were not worth flying. I don't know what the deal with them were, but they were not fun to fly, didn't track good and just miserable to land. Never flown a cub that was that big of a pain. They could have been really messed up when built, but didn't look to be.
Just my exp with them.
The goldberg is by far the best flyer. The great planes would be next and the sig my last choice. I have flown probably 20 different goldberg kits, and every one flew awsome, not one, even the one that was built really poorly had any bad flight traits. I have only flown one great planes, and it wasn't bad, but not as nice as the goldberg. I have flown about 4 sig cubs, 2 were ok, and 2 were not worth flying. I don't know what the deal with them were, but they were not fun to fly, didn't track good and just miserable to land. Never flown a cub that was that big of a pain. They could have been really messed up when built, but didn't look to be.
Just my exp with them.
10-21-2003 | 01:53 PM
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RE: Who Makes The Best Cub?
I have a goldberg kit, have flown an old goldberg I was given, and have flown a sig. The sig flew good, but I liked the goldberg better. The goldberg seemed better but it was mine, not someone elses. I have not built the kit yet. I have been told if you are going w/ an overpower/aerobat on the goldberg it is best to reinforce the dowel that connects the two elevator halves with steel or something stronger. I have heard the dowel can snap. Never looked at that construction detail on the others though. The old goldberg (20+ years, at least it looks it) I flew about 5 years ago when I started it was a gift from a club member really beat up, gold sticker futaba 4ch, but still flew really well (on a 65LA), that was part of my decsion to go goldberg as well, (I already have a spare)
