gotta ask...Ive been lurking about the R/C world since the eighties ( finally started flying about 3 years ago) and I just gotta know: What is it about the Cub that makes everyone want to make/buy them? I get that they were a popular civil aircraft and all, but....dang.....do we really need eleventeen of them?
What is it about the Cub?
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Chuppster
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Well, I have two and they are both a lot of fun to fly. I do think they are over-modeled though.
If you Cub is not much fun. Try adding MORE POWER. Like the Bickford 6000
BS projects inc.
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I never really had much fun with cubs, bush planes are better!!!!
evranch
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I'm not a big Cub fan myself. I think they are popular because it's really easy to make something that looks like a Cub, and the flight characteristics make a tame trainer. As such just about everyone's first RC plane was some sort of Cub. They are a pretty realistic scale flyer, like Bricks says you actually need to use the rudder to make them track well and they fly well with a wimpy motor.
As a taildragger they steer easily with rudder on the ground, and don't need a smooth surface for a nosewheel to track on. You don't see many 172 RC trainers despite them being the most popular trainer in general aviation, probably because there would be a lot of smashed nose gear out there.
As a taildragger they steer easily with rudder on the ground, and don't need a smooth surface for a nosewheel to track on. You don't see many 172 RC trainers despite them being the most popular trainer in general aviation, probably because there would be a lot of smashed nose gear out there.
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