Super Cub, 18ft Take Off...!!!
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Super Cub, 18ft Take Off...!!!
Check this out, it is a super cub taking off in just 18ft. I also have the landing, it almost stops in the air then drops onto the ground but I can't upload it.... Never mind, enjoy this vid.... SUPER CUB VSTO. 
P.S. Before the internet police come in bleating and demanding to know why this isn't in the video sticky at the top of the forum, well, it is not my personal video......
P.S. Before the internet police come in bleating and demanding to know why this isn't in the video sticky at the top of the forum, well, it is not my personal video......
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WOW
Super cool!
From the flag it looks like not much more than a normal head wind!
I guess the ability to lift the tail while still on the breaks is a comblination of tail in the propwash, and leverage of the thrust arround the brakes!
Standard technique in your back garden???
Were you there??
Ian
From the flag it looks like not much more than a normal head wind!
I guess the ability to lift the tail while still on the breaks is a comblination of tail in the propwash, and leverage of the thrust arround the brakes!
Standard technique in your back garden???
Were you there??
Ian
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Here you go.......... Super Cub Landing.
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Very nice!
The take off video stops straight after it takes off - I bet it's because it stalls straight away! The landing is the same ... you can't see the tail because someone quickly attached an anchor!
only kiddin - very impressive
Spikeee
The take off video stops straight after it takes off - I bet it's because it stalls straight away! The landing is the same ... you can't see the tail because someone quickly attached an anchor!
only kiddin - very impressiveSpikeee
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Around 1960/61, Wing Commander Murray, who was sales demonstration pilot for then Piper agents Vigors Aviation at Kidlington, used to perform a similar take-off routine in a Super Cub, though perhaps with not quite such a short run as this one. I remember seeing a fly-off between the PA-18 and a Helio Courier during a show at Kidlington, doing 'jump' T-Os over bunting strung between two poles. Can't recall who won, though.
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The take off video stops straight after it takes off - I bet it's because it stalls straight away! The landing is the same ... you can't see the tail because someone quickly attached an anchor!
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Very nice, BUT...
Lightly loaded, STOL droop tips, almost certainly vortex generators, stiff breeze, cool day, probably a 180HP mod.
Don't try this at home with a stock PA18, folks!
Extreme Super Cubbists are obsessive about weight and temperature and with a light cub, the right mods and the right conditions there is little you can't do.
It's an amazing aircraft, but a lot of people die in Super Cubs, which is worth remembering lest one get a trifle too carried away.
QDM
Lightly loaded, STOL droop tips, almost certainly vortex generators, stiff breeze, cool day, probably a 180HP mod.
Don't try this at home with a stock PA18, folks!
Extreme Super Cubbists are obsessive about weight and temperature and with a light cub, the right mods and the right conditions there is little you can't do.
It's an amazing aircraft, but a lot of people die in Super Cubs, which is worth remembering lest one get a trifle too carried away.
QDM
