Steve, I'm curious about the main landing gear structure in the fuselage. There must be a considerable change from a standard Cub. The gear legs appear to be swept back a bit. Is it possible to swap the left and right legs, sweeping them forward and then adding a tailwheel? Or would it be a much bigger job to convert it?
Are you sure, out of all the X Cubs I have worked on and been around I only remember one with conventional tubing style gear, all the others have spring gear.After conversion to tail wheel configuration you end up with an aircraft that is very similar to the type certificated XCub.
It may be noteworthy that some, perhaps all, EAB factory assist XCubs are being built with conventional Cub gear not the leaf spring gear. I don't think that option is available for the type certificated XCub.
Are you sure, out of all the X Cubs I have worked on and been around I only remember one with conventional tubing style gear, all the others have spring gear.
They could have done it in less time had they not taken the wheels off the gear and then reinstalled them. Unless they did something off screen which I did not see?
The X Cubs I deal with are certified part 23. I don't know why anyone would buy an EAB X Cub when the can buy an FX3.
That is called marketing. My Dad was an engineer at Cummins. They would change a manufacturing process and the marketing department would spin it into a product improvement. Engineers and marketing people are cut from different cloth for sure. :lol:
Supposedly they would have to beef up the FX3 so much for the 393 that it would weigh what an X Cub weighs. FX3 and big engine X Cub have the same power to weight. I'll take the FX3.You can't, to the best of my knowledge, get the big engine on an FX-3.
LOL, after flying them I wouldn't hesitate to take one home. Probably sell it pretty quick and buy several other airplanes with the proceeds but I ain't skeered to be seen in it.
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Or when I sent Cathy to pick up a part and he wouldn't go because she was flying the Tri-Pacer.“But it’s a nosewheel”-Lee that time he was excited to see a twin beech, and then when it touched down he saw the wheel in the wrong spot. Hahahahaha
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Supposedly they would have to beef up the FX3 so much for the 393 that it would weigh what an X Cub weighs. FX3 and big engine X Cub have the same power to weight.