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| 04-10-2013 03:12 PM | ||
| rcnutdt |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Love the look of Tundra wheels on a Cub, used old 10th scale buggy sand tires on my 40 size J-3 |
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| 04-08-2013 07:15 AM | ||
| YoungestPiperCub |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Glad to see you started your own thread on the nosewheel cub. UPDATE: Down in toledo i picked up some goodies for the cub and will be working again on this once the arfs are done for this year 
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| 04-01-2013 03:16 PM | ||
| Struts1 |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING I started to look at the nose gear more closely and it turns out that it didn't have any steering mechanism built into it, did more research and found bigger image of that article i posted in earlier post. Reading through it, it states that "There is no steering on the nose gear and aircraft can easily turn with help from brakes and rudder!" Hmmmm, getting interesting as I learn more about it. This mod was first developed back in 1941!. It's still in use to date on some airframes..... So now what about the nose gear steering?, any ideas how to implement this or keep it scale with hopes that Rudder will push the tail with bit of power ups burps on the throttle.... Sorry Kev, don't thin ive hijacked ur thread here but this is something new to many of us on here and would like to share what i'm discovering about nose gears on J3 and PA11s.... |
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| 04-01-2013 02:44 PM | ||
| Struts1 |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Quote:
Did some research on this and found out that trike gear set up was first tried on J3 Cub and there is that article also, then PA 11 Super Cubs were also installed with tri wheel configuration. Piper then developed all new aircraft and designated as PA 20 Tri-Pacer, Pacer was bigger then J3 and PA 11 as both pilots sat side by side unlike in tandem configuration on J3 and PA 11. I also found that Piper also made J5 Cub Cruiser aircraft prior to Tri Pacer and it also utilized tri wheel landing gear set up. So this set up has been in use for a very long time on few of Piper aircraft. Now all these aircrafts also have there taildragger variants also.... |
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| 04-01-2013 06:43 AM | ||
| YoungestPiperCub |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Its not a cub if its not a tailwheel IMO. Taildraggers are inherently better then trike gear planes. 
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| 04-01-2013 05:22 AM | ||
| bradleyban |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Sam when I first seen on here you talking about the tike gear on a cub I thought you were getting confused with a Piper Tri pacer. But then you show the pics of the cub. Wow never seen that one before. Cool |
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| 04-01-2013 01:59 AM | ||
| Struts1 |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Here are couple pictures of PA 11 Super Cub with tricycle landing gear arrangement plus an article that it was originally tested on Piper J3 Cub. After seeing video in above post, I'm starting to really like to do this mod on my BIG Cub soon.... |
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| 04-01-2013 01:55 AM | ||
| Struts1 |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING Here is a video of Super Cub with trike landing gear set up, it was originally derived from J3 Cub. |
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| 03-31-2013 12:01 PM | ||
| YoungestPiperCub |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread - BBKING a 50cc engine would be good for this plane |
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| 03-31-2013 10:16 AM | ||
| Struts1 |
Re: AMR Piper J-3 Cub 33% Build Thread Quote:
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