Don't try this at home! Merle Larson prepares to start a J-3 engine in flight over Concord CA in 1946. Gladys Davis is flying the Cub from the rear seat. Larson was a WWII B-24 veteran, airshow pilot, and aircraft designer — "and no circus daredevil," insisted Bill …

Some specs for J-3 Cubs with 3C-65 engine I acquired the following sheet when I had to make that weight & balance calculation for Zero Six Hotel. I have tried to reproduce it as close to the original as possible. A-691 - THE NEW PIPER AIRCRAFT, INC. Model J3C-65

The Savage Cub is typically equipped with 100 hp Rotax engine, electrics, flaps, and 18 gallon wing tanks. You can add skis, floats, tundra tires, and of course a full menu of avionics. The plane is essentially a clipped-wing Cub (span 30 feet 10 inches), a bit wider than the original J-3 (cabin width 2 feet 3 inches).

On the Yahoo mailing list, Piper Cub Builders, an owner named Rich described his J-3 Cub with a data plate showing it with a Continental C-85 engine instead of the original Lycoming 65 hp. Rich bought the plane without an engine and intended to install a Continental A-65, and of course he also wanted to clear up the paperwork.

A tip of the virtual hat to Max Rentz, who alerted the Piper Cub Builders List to this darling little airplane. He equipped it with a 25-horsepower, one cylinder F33 Hirth engine, which qualified the plane as an Ultralight under FAR 103. It's now sold with a more robust 447 or 503 Rotax engine, qualifying under the Sport Pilot program.

All about the immortal Piper Cub light aircraft, best-known as the J-3 Cub or L-4 Grasshopper, built by William Piper at Lock Haven, that evolved into the PA-11, PA-12, and PA-18 Super Cub, and the Legend Cub and Cub Sport of today

A pre-flight checklist for a J-3 Piper Cub Since there's no Pilot Operating Handbook for the early Cubs, it follows that there's no standard pre-flight check list. If you run into an FAA examiner, you may be challenged to do your pre-flight from a written checklist, and if your airport's checklist is as daunting as the one at 7B3, you may ...

CUB HOME PAGE > SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY A Sentimental Journey to Lock Haven. Putting on the numbers: April Stewart and her father at work. By Daniel Ford (Air&Space / Smithsonian) Like swallows to Capistrano, the Piper Cubs return every year to this town on the west branch of the Susquehanna, where most of them were built.

Afton municipal has a field elevation of 6,200 feet, which goes far to explain why the Husky has a 180 hp engine (compared to 65 hp for a typical J-3 Cub and 95-150 hp for the Super Cub). It also has semi-Fowler flaps, vortex generators, a constant-speed propeller, and a more modern airfoil than those on the Cubs.

Fixing the brakes on a J-3 Cub The following requet was posted on the Cub Builders mailing list: "Hi,all. Had the wheels off my J-3 and noticed that I have heavy gouges in the brake drums. Bled the brakes including putting a band clamp around the expander tubes as suggested in a recent Cub Clues [newsletter] to squeeze out any fluid and air.