Gary's Super Cub Rebuild

[skywagon8a]

View attachment 28043Gary

Off subject, but I have to comment on the heat pump unit on your house. I'm having one installed as we speak. Yours appears to be crooked. When I mentioned this to my installer, he said that it is supposed to be perfectly level in order to operate correctly.

 

[wireweinie]

Off subject, but I have to comment on the heat pump unit on your house. I'm having one installed as we speak. Yours appears to be crooked. When I mentioned this to my installer, he said that it is supposed to be perfectly level in order to operate correctly.

Part of the "full Service" provided by SuperCub.org! lol

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[Gary Ward]

My Super Cub is now in the hands of Doug Ripley, Air Acres airpark N of Atlanta, who will install the engine, instrument panel , paint, and do the final assembly. I've been working with Mirco Pecorari of Aircraft Studio Design, Modena, Italy to design my paint scheme. (Mirco did the scheme on my MX2, did my logo and some other work). We nailed it down this morning in a work session on Skype. Here is what it will look like. For whatever reasons, I have developed more of a sense of patriotism over the last few weeks and decided to paint it RED/WHITE/BLUE!

Rebuilt O-320/160 HP arrived yesterday.

Gary

 

[Gary Ward]

I meant to have mentioned that my design parameters to Mirco were to keep it relatively simple (that might be arguable), follow some of the traditional Super Cub scheme concepts and inject some of our own. We will be using masking decals for stars, etc so hopefully it won't be too hard to paint.

 

[skywagon8a]

I like your paint scheme, but it will still be very labor intensive to mask accurately. Looking forward to pictures of the result.

 

[Steve Pierce]

You got the best painter to do the job as well.

 

[mvivion]

Jus read this thread, and wanted to comment on the whiskey compass issue. My experience contrary to some others is that the "S.I.R.S." compasses, mounted high in the windshield of a cub work really well. They still tumble in a really steep turn but then orient properly. Ive put these in three airplanes where I was told that any compass would "just point to the last weld" and they worked just fine in all three.

i see absolutely no point in installing and carrying any instrument that is not functional or useful. The S.I.R.S. compasses work, maybe not in every situation, but waaaay better than anything else.

Also, I see no point installing a Turn Coordinator....a better device would be a Reiner ball/bank instrument, and if you want a "get out of cloud" instrument, consider one of the ADHARS recently approved by the FAA, like a Dynon D-10.

MTV

 

[Gary Ward]

Jus read this thread, and wanted to comment on the whiskey compass issue. My experience contrary to some others is that the "S.I.R.S." compasses, mounted high in the windshield of a cub work really well. They still tumble in a really steep turn but then orient properly. Ive put these in three airplanes where I was told that any compass would "just point to the last weld" and they worked just fine in all three.

i see absolutely no point in installing and carrying any instrument that is not functional or useful. The S.I.R.S. compasses work, maybe not in every situation, but waaaay better than anything else.

Also, I see no point installing a Turn Coordinator....a better device would be a Reiner ball/bank instrument, and if you want a "get out of cloud" instrument, consider one of the ADHARS recently approved by the FAA, like a Dynon D-10.

MTV

Thanks,
I'll check out the SIRS compass. I have decided against a turn coordinator or needle and ball. Here is what I already have to install

Trig TY91 comm
Trig TT21 TXP
EI CGR30P engine monitor
Garmin G5 either now or later
Center space of panel large enough for iPad or Garmin 796 to be left open.

Gary

 

[mvivion]

Thanks,
I'll check out the SIRS compass. I have decided against a turn coordinator or needle and ball. Here is what I already have to install

Trig TY91 comm
Trig TT21 TXP
EI CGR30P engine monitor
Garmin G5 either now or later
Center space of panel large enough for iPad or Garmin 796 to be left open.

Gary

Gary,

a simple ball/bank instrument is easy to install, and takes up no space. I've mounted them high on the panel or on top of the panel. Your back sweaters will appreciate it. Here's a link: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/pages/in/slipindicators/bank_indicat.php

And they're cheap, as airplane stuff goes.

MTV

 

[cubdriver2]

Just bought a like new Rieker one on eBay for 24 bucks

Glenn

 

[rsrguy3]

Love the scheme, it's reminiscent of the multiplex rc fun cub

 

[Gary Ward]

Love the scheme, it's reminiscent of the multiplex rc fun cub

Thanks. Do you have a picture of the fun cub?

 

[Gary Ward]

Gary,

a simple ball/bank instrument is easy to install, and takes up no space. I've mounted them high on the panel or on top of the panel. Your back sweaters will appreciate it. Here's a link: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/pages/in/slipindicators/bank_indicat.php

And they're cheap, as airplane stuff goes.

MTV

Good idea and I just realized that I have one that I bought a couple of years ago to use in my MX2. With no dihedral, I don't have much of a low point in the wing tanks. I thought it might be of us on XC flights but not really. I have Left, Right, main fuel valve so I basically have to fly in a radical side slip to burn all the gas out of a wing tank. Amazingly, it doesn't seem to affect the speed that much.

Gary

 

[Gary Ward]

I like your paint scheme, but it will still be very labor intensive to mask accurately. Looking forward to pictures of the result.

Mirco, who did the graphic design will provide me with a file which I can use to make masking decals for the difficult items like the stars. I did this on my MX2 and it worked really good. Really simplifies the masking.

Gary