QDM
I thought the wind vane like device on the early Moth machines was a paddle which was spring loaded and was pushed back by the action of air and therefore a crude ASI rather than AoA indicator?. Not studied this so could be wrong but certainly looked that way when I last saw one at the Moth fly in.
I think we've all taken rude pills - under another guise, and in a different forum, it has been interesting to see how a post can become the prompt for massive unexpected controversy. I guess the relative anonymity of forums along with the 'free speech' ethic leads to beheviour which we would find difficult to justify face to face.
Off topic I know but this is one of the negative and corrosive impacts of e-mail which in most other ways has been a huge benefit to society.
I guess one of the points that some of the posters missed was the fact that the supercub, particularly the larger engine variants, can sit in the air with the ASI off the clock as you describe. Makes tail chasing with less capable machines quite fun, they just go sailing past.