Vintage OSH pics - Modified Cubs/Outside the box thinking.

[707Light]

I was going through some family pics, saw these. Cubs of a few different stripes. It looks to be from the 60's.
I never had chance to not like airplanes.:lol:

Cheers,
Dave

 

[cubdriver2]

I've flown the biplane super Cub. Doesn't do anything different than a regular Super Cub except go slower and ruin looking at the ground

Glenn

 

[KevinJ]

What shade of Oratex is the blue trimmed cub?;-)

 

[DENNY]

The biplane cub had some interested stall speeds listed for a stock 150 hp cub trying to make the mod look good.
DENNY

 

[Skywalker]

A pair of direct drive 2 strokes decades before ANR.

 

[Speedo]

Wonder what the covering was on N7131. It was exported to Canada and the registration was cancelled in 1967. So the pictures probably are from ‘67 or earlier.

 

[farm_boy252]

2610 lbs gross weight pretty impressive, even if its just on Ag model

 

[Dog]

How about the dual Tundra Wheel set up any pics of that?

 

[Waldo M]

How about the dual Tundra Wheel set up any pics of that?

If you're thinking of Whitacker Tandem wheels, they used 8.00 x 4 Cub wheels, not tundra tires.

 

[Dog]

If you're thinking of Whitacker Tandem wheels, they used 8.00 x 4 Cub wheels, not tundra tires.

Yes thats right that was before tundra tires were available -- talk about thinking outside the box

 

[DENNY]

Someone also had a tracked system that was tested but never put on the market that I know of.
DENNY

 

[Farmboy]

John Graham has a set of tandems for his J3. There is also videos of the tracked system on YouTube.


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[Farmboy]

https://youtu.be/eDCgMlomhvM?si=Jeyn485EjBjpbDsz

https://youtu.be/X9vmamugkI4?si=hpO9KzlWKqexQn9V


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[Farmboy]

Tangent, but a favorite video is Northrop testing the OV10 gear. The rebound dampening and shock system appeared to work well, but the pilot probably had a headache.

https://youtu.be/HnTp0yKGcxU?si=mlJ7WCFUsiLcGOXD


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[rc dude]

Someone also had a tracked system that was tested but never put on the market that I know of.
DENNY