Webinar - Buying, Flying and Owning a Piper Cub

[@choppergirl]

One time I was sitting at home, and I saw a Yellow J3 Cub fly overhead from our local potato patch airport. I remember offhanded my dad once telling me the guy gave airplane rides. So I jumped in my car, rushed to the airport (didn't actually remember where it was), and marched out on the field, and he had just landed, it was his last flight of the day. I didn't know the guy A for Adam but I just right out asked him to give me a ride!

[@blueplanetphotostudio9616]

This is really good information on buying a Cub or ANY vintage aircraft.

[@GutpileCharlie]

Excellent video. Brought back many old memories. Learned to fly in the fall of 1956 in J3 N3590K and PA12 N7720H. Didn't do any flying for a few years, till 1974. Got in a C150 and the instructor asked if I thought I could fly it and I said sure. On my first take off run I was "dancing" on the rudder pedals. That just isn't necessary with a nose wheel. I don't think you've learned to fly until you fly a rag wing taildragger. God bless the Cub. :-)

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

Glider. First takeoff is a formation flight

[@minecraftwtihclay]

No way! I flew with Steve Krog at cub air. Got 12.5 hours with Steve and now go to oshkosh for flight school. I have my private now :)

[@gregson99]

my 1st and only flight on a small plane was a piper cub j3. Great memories.

[@JimForeman]

Love the J3 Piper Cub, soloed one on my 16th birthday in 1944 abd have owned a dozen or more over the years.

[@Tetra84]

Great info! I hope to learn to fly in a Cub one day soon!

[@64wing]

heavier is smoother (generally). I'll tell ya, "floatiness" is a synonym for bumpy as far as a passenger is concerned. I love flying no matter how bumpy it is, but a passenger usually likes it smooth. That is really the primary reason why heavy is good for rides. One other reason is that if the passenger tries their hand at doing some of the flying once aloft, he/she will be less able to over-control the airplane.

[@rrpilot]

Lots of very good info.

[@joekasson1923]

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[@AlMacasaet]

Flew an L4 with an instructor once in 1966. At 70, hope it's not too late to go back to flying.

[@dandersonjr]

After 3:08 I shut the video off because it doesn't sound like a machine I'd like to fly.

[@commentatron]

To each their own. On the other hand, I like the idea that 80% of all WWII pilots received their primary training in this aircraft.

[@pontier09]

If you got paid a dollar for every "uh" on this video, you could buy one of the $50k showroom cubs mentioned

[@spurgear4]

I always wanted a cub but bought a Vegabond for half the price of a cub. I love my little pa 17.

[@WoBlink1961]

@GCD89 I feel the same way about VW Beetles - but plenty think they're great. To me, a Cub is a return to real stick & rudder flying. I'd love one.

[@Shotgunwilly1588]

My first flying lesson was in a j3 cub with my granddad who was the manager of the downtown airport 3dw springfield mo. I'm a big fan of this aircraft I love it because it's easy to fly slipping into a landing and back in the tail down there's nothing like it. Original had a 65 horsepower engine it blew up through a crank rod / Fellows Lake and North Springfield Missouri my granddad decide to put on a 85 horsepower engine for a little bit more take off power. If anybody knows who has November Charlie 3481 kilo I'm interested in falling it through its rest of its life maybe someday I can own my grandad's whole plane.

[@hexnut72]

I flew in a Cub out of the Aurora Mo airport back in '95ish? It had flat plates on the ends of the wingtips and was owned by a lady named Carol if I remember right. When did your family get rid of the airplane?

[@christiangruhn7365]

Well, there is the part where we modelers watch out for no-wind conditions. :) Because the light ones do bump quite a bit if it's windy.

[@paulbickley658]

Good video...

[@choppergirl]

And without question next thing I knew I was up in the air looking down with nothing below me :-) There's no door on this thing! And you can't see forward at all when you take off!

[@musicalmike235]

For someone like me who is just trying to break into the world of aviation for the first time, what exactly should i be looking for when viewing these logs?

[@maxwellspeedwell2585]

Just think, in sixteen years will have the big 100 birthday.

[@christiangruhn7365]

SO why is having a heavier weight a good thing for giving rides and such? I design, build, and fly radio control aerobatic model airplanes. And making them light is EXTREMELY important, it is less stress on parts, more floatiness when landing, slower stall. Does the heavier cub have a beefier landing gear and strut mount? I can see that as an advantage but they must have made it out of depleted uranium to add 50-100 pounds with that change. :)

[@DEeMONsworld]

only 8,000 hours? My first instructor retired with 42,000 hours in light singles :)

[@commentatron]

I think Wilt Chamberlain had something like 42,000 hours, too.

[@hash46176]

I'm looking at one 1940 cub in ohio barn for 22000 hasn't flown since 1975

[@no-rope]

Were do you get parts in the USA for an 1944 Cup L-4? Arno from Germany

[@PDZ1122]

Aircraft Spruce in Corona, Univair, or Wag Aero.

[@roym5694]

i have found j5 in tn cl

[@taildragginone]

Light airplanes fly better than heavy ones . Good info on the vid but man, what a sleeping pill !

[@2089maca]

more weight is smoother I think

[@adelejellybelly2010]

More weight definitely smoother ever in RC model planes

[@杨超-b3u]

小熊是很棒的飞机！

[@PDZ1122]

Or you could just buy a Champ.....🤣

[@roym5694]

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[@peppylaymoseeto]

17:52 He didn't say "MAGNEEDLES" did he? Did he say "MagNEEDLES" a couple times? 17:52 18:00. I never heard magnetos called magneedles.