| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1237.1 | .60 marginal | WMOIS::DA_WEIER | Wings are just a place to hang Ailerons | Fri Aug 17 1990 16:53 | 7 |
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I have not owned or flown a 1/4 scale cub, but I have seen 2
of them fly. One had a .60 2 stroke, and the other one (Kevin Ladd's)
had a SuperTiger 2500 installed. The .60 was very marginal, but it
could have just been that particular engine which wasn't running very
well. The 2500 flew the plane great with more than enough power to
play around with or get you out of trouble.
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| 1237.2 | .60 not enough (for me) | ROCK::KLADD | hl02-3/c11 225-7316 | Fri Aug 17 1990 19:01 | 13 |
| i flew a balsa usa 1/4 scale cub for a season with a st2500 as
previously mentioned. had a lot of fun with that plane till i
got shot down. for me a .60 is too small and i'd never consider
it. on the other hand a st2500 (1.5) is probably just as
ridiculous. however i figure you can always throttle back or
setup the engine to not run full throttle. a st2000 or 2500 is
half the price of a 1.20 4-stroke and turns a bigger (scale)
prop and, to me, sounds just as good when pulling a cub along at
3k rpms.
as for using it as a trainer, i dunno. its big and slow and stable
so mistakes would probably be fewer... but if you do crash, big
planes can really splash...
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| 1237.3 | Balsa USA Cub
| CUTCHZ::VOSS | | Tue Aug 28 1990 10:34 | 6 |
| I am in the process of completing a USA CUB. I am going to install a ZENOA G23
Gas engine. The G23 is 1.3 cubes and provides the economy of auto fuel. I also
have a set of floats in the work. The G23 is $184 dollars + you will need a
new muffler that saves space in the nose so you don't need much surgery.
Speaking of nose, I threw away the cowl that came with the kit and ordered a
cowl with engine from Fiberglass Masters - very nice!
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| 1237.4 | O.S. 91 surpass! | JUPITR::PERCUOCO | | Mon Sep 17 1990 17:14 | 7 |
| A friend of mine built the 1/4 scale, clipped wing, SIG cub
and put and O.S. 91 surpass with a 16x? prop on it. He flew
it for the first time this past weekend! Boy, does it fly
scale like! It's a real floater and sounds great!!! The surpass
is a perfect engine for this plane!
Tom
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