The Piper Cub Forum
网页The Piper Cub Forum. All about the immortal J-3 Piper Cub and L-4 Grasshopper, built by William Piper at Lock Haven, which evolved into the PA-11 Cub Special, PA-18 Super Cub, and the Legend Cub and other lookalikes of today. ANNALS OF THE PIPER CUB.
Piper Cub: Taylor, Piper, and other production figures
网页Cub production, 1931-2019. Nearly 50,000 Cubs have been built over the past 88 years, beginning with the Taylor Aircraft E-2 and continuing today with the Legend Cub, Cub Sport, and various kits and plans. For more about the planes included here, see …
Re-covering a Piper Cub
网页Re-covering a Piper Cub. by John Scott (Piper Cub Builders List) Mattias (and all the rest of you), I've thought for a week or more now about your questions thrown to the masses about re-covering your plane (I think you've said it is actually an L-18C). I've read all the responses (so far) from members of the group, and while many of them gave ...
Tiger Cub ultralight - Piper Cub Forum
网页Tiger Cub ultralight. A tip of the virtual hat to Max Rentz, who alerted the Piper Cub Builders List to this darling little airplane. He equipped it with a 25-horsepower, one cylinder F33 Hirth engine, which qualified the plane as an Ultralight under FAR 103. It's now sold with a more robust 447 or 503 Rotax engine, qualifying under the Sport ...
网页Title. Classic Airplanes - Inspection Report. Author. Piper Aircraft Company. Subject. PA-15, PA-16, and PA-17. Keywords. Inspection Report PA-15 PA-16 PA-17. Created Date.
Fixing the brakes on a J-3 Cub - Piper Cub Forum
网页2. Fill a pressure type oil can with brake fluid. 3. Raise and block the wheel so that it is clear of the ground and will spin freely. 4. Remove the screw from the bleeder valve at the brake. 5. Place a layer or two of rag or shop towel between the …
Wind generator for a Piper Cub
网页A wind generator for a Piper Cub. Most European aircraft are required to carry transponders, requiring Cub drivers in Europe to figure out how to power the thing. If you buy a commercial generator, your won't get much change from a thousand-dollar bill, but here's a home fix by Mattias Johnsson of Sweden.
A Sentimental Journey to Lock Haven - pipercubforum.com
网页The event that brings the Cubs and me to Lock Haven is the Sentimental Journey, when the town plays host to anyone brave enough to fly a venerable and underpowered airplane through the wooded mountains and misty valleys of mid-Pennsylvania. Not every arrival is a Cub, but most planes date to aviation's first half-century.
Adding an ELT, a GPS, and a handheld radio to a Piper Cub
网页Cut a piece of 1/8th inch marine plywood to fit in the space formed by the seat back tubing. Center fore and aft. Attach with four adel clamps. Attach your Garmin GPS and com radio to the plywood using Ram round-a-mount item B-149z-G1K for the GPS and B-138-BC1-K for your com radio.
Harvey Plourde: Compleat Taildragger Pilot
网页There's also a suggested curriculum for transitioning from trikes to taildraggers -- probably the usual circumstance now, when most training is done in one or another Cessna trike. Astonishingly, Harvey's suggested minimum is 10.5 hours -- for a certificated pilot! That must cause some head-shaking among the Old Pilots who soloed the Piper Cub ...