WM 1/3 Super Cub ARF 3W106!!!

[SleepyC]

BOSS,

Is this plane as fun as it looks?

I am finishing one right now.
And to be honest, I'm more excited to fly it than any of my other planes!

I will probably strip it and recover it my self next winter...
and do the sunburst scheme as well.

But MAN... I can't wait to get this guy flying.
I only have a G62 on CH ign for mine, but I think it will haul it around pretty well.
perhaps a weak hover.?

[ds1rc]

Here are some pictures of the “Carbonator”, started as a World Models J3, had a meeting with a fence. Engine ZDZ80B2, wings clipped to 110”, Skywriter smoke system, Smartfly electronics, A123 batteries, JR921 2.4 receiver, covered with Worldtex fabric, painted with Latex.

[bosshoss]

Sleepy, yes, it will be a blast, no hover sustained hover with a 62, but, it will climb like a homesick angel. I was doing 5mph putting with mine last nite with the 106, but I have a problem with that motor, finnicky to tune it. I have to get the 90 deg snorkel-stack to get clean- unturblulent air.

Be careful....the wing attachment sucks.

The screws into the tude method is bogus, and with the slots in the struts, in a loop they can move, and the wing will bow a little, and the tube screws tear up the wing. Bogus.

In my rebuild we put blind nuts 1/4-20 2 in each wing root. No more screws in the tubes-through-the-wing method. Much better. Also the slots in the strut connectors......after final fit, I glued grub screws (Goop) into the slots so the stuts dont pull out 1/8 inch and allow the wing to bow.

See, I found after thrashing it, I would come down and check it out. The struts would be at thier most extended in the slots. I started out at thier most inward (static). So a hard or spirited loop, made them pull out to the end of the slot. The grub screws glued into the slots stopped that.

now if I had a TIG welder, I would close the slots up a bit.

86 the big tail wires, use Sullivan brass plated SS control wire and clevis'. UYou cant get the big honking wires tight enough with the hardware they give you. All that Chinese white metal harware is garbage. 4mm cap screws all around.

The 50oz tank is great, I made a little shelf on top to hold the ignition above the tank. My smoke Tank is hanging under the radio tray by straps on the CG.

The Cub style tail wheel is too stiff and will break, I put a Dave Patrick style on it after opening up the tail and adding more wood.

The wheels , while they look cool, will blow out. The football style inflators will fail. Ask me how I know....so..6inch Dubro Gumby inflatables for me....they look Bushy cool.

Sorry for the longg post, but, I fifgure you wanted the whole poop and nothing but the poop.

DS.....

Great Clipped job, man. Mine went through the trees after a 30 minute flight after flying so far away that it looked small, (it's not), and I missed judged it's size and flew it behind the trees at our field, I thought it was in the park.....it wasn;t.

Sleepy, this will be your #1, you will fall in love with it. I tell people it is my park flyer....'cus I CAN fly it in the park. An opposite rudder mix for flat turns, half flap, and I flat turn it with power, in the park at eye level. Abso , Fabso, Fantastico.

Watch those screwy tube blots....Oh and how do you like the 'dis in the manual??

Quote: "If advanced pilot, use thread tool to use machine screw in tube, Otherwise use wood screw.".....Bastards.

[SleepyC]

Good info.

Ok.. so the struts, are you refering to the slotted ends that attach to the two points on the wings, or the single attachment near the bottom of the fuse? I guess either...or both.

And the wing attachment.. I'll have to see what I an do about that.
Any way to install wing bolts? couple of had points into the wing root?
or no?

[bosshoss]

Ok TOP Strut slots , I just go all the way to the end , farthest out. (although they should probably be tigged closed too, after adjustment and final fit, so there is no "push-in" during inverted,hmmmmm...), BUT the Bottom attachment I filled , because the strut pulled "out" to the end of the slot after some hard (just spirited) looping and flopping around.

So, yes, the TOP probably need the same treatment, and I did not ever see them "pull" to the end of the slot, but I bet they could, even though they are "flat" and on an angle flat to the "pull".

The wing root, well my plane was SUSHI and if you look at the pics earlier in the thread, It was stripped naked and rebuilt and repaired, so it was easy at that time to blind nut two spots on the inside space between the tubes.

We added a lite ply plate in the fuse, and blind nutted the roots. Works great, I don;t have a hatch on top, and we were going to do it during the rebuild, but never got to it. So, I reach up inside from the door and finger the bolts in.

A hatch , or sliding passenger windows would make it easier. Hatch / window on top would be the coolest.

I don't know if you want to tear open the roots and B-nut them, but believe me, the first time those Cheap-ass Chinese screws in the wing tubes cause you to put a hole in the covering......like I did, slipped with the screwdriver on a crappy screw, you will want to b-nut the roots.

WOOD screws in the wing tubes....I mean come on....I was swearing like Yosemite Sam #W$%#$#$24!!!

I dig this plane, and it is my #1 this year. I can put it together in 10 mins , it fits in the van with two helis...And it can be flown like a Sunday flier,an oversize Park Flyer, a banner tow, a glider tug or a crazy Barnstorming maniac. Just my style.

[TimDavie]

I have started a thread on the World Models Super Cub I have built. I have flown with the stock wings, and scratched my own set of constant chord clipped wings with my own airfoil. My scratched wings have about 1 degree of anhedral in the wings. I have a Kroma 100 in it. It's like getting a trainer and wringing it out after a day of aerobatics with a 40% extra. Great fun. here's the thread....
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/f...batic-cub.html

[VKGT]

Nice plane!