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Scale Super Cub
Project started
July 2006
First Flight -
first warm day - Spring 2008
Scale landing
gear with working bungee cords
Working landing
and navigation lights (switched - see interior
photo) powered by two nine volt batteries
Pull-pull rudder
cables
Elevator servo
mounted in rear above stab
Interior has thin
aluminum plates covered in black vinyl for side
panels. Dash and left side controls are scale.
Knob labeled "pull to choke" is actual choke
knob for Fuji 64 gas engine.
Two servos for
ailerons and two servos for flaps.
Waiting to
install floor and seats which are being covered
in black vinyl. 1/3 scale pilot is painted
but has no clothes.
Covered in
Solartex fabric with pinking tape and rib
stitching. Sprayed with Randolph aircraft
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