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Post by Crazy Horse on Sept 19, 2013 15:35:15 GMT 1
As Crocodile Dundee once said, "You can eat it, but it tastes like sh*t" I really like Kenny Rogers songs, always have, great voice. Shame about the surgery, I have no idea why seemingly intelligent people do this, but he now has a great face for radio.  |
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Post by toff on Sept 19, 2013 16:11:54 GMT 1
JK, That looks absolutely brilliant! So good, just don't bother with the cowl, just let it all hang out in the breeze! ( but if you get arrested, don't blame me!  ) |
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Post by renard80 on Sept 19, 2013 23:49:20 GMT 1
Just dropped in to say how much I'm enjoying this thread.
That's all, folks.
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Post by iandhunt on Sept 20, 2013 0:15:38 GMT 1
Superb! It just goes to show, looks are deceptive. Love the "Heath Robinson" look. Thanks CH. And might I add that I look forward to you British chaps posts as I almost always get an education in the process! Education.....headache....all the same to me! LOL! MARMITE!!!! |
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Post by coupe1942 on Sept 20, 2013 10:47:28 GMT 1
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Post by Crazy Horse on Sept 20, 2013 17:59:24 GMT 1
That is so good looking!
That aircraft is awesome!
I love this thread!
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Post by iandhunt on Sept 22, 2013 23:30:42 GMT 1
That is so good looking! That aircraft is awesome! I love this thread! If only it were a Marmite jar.... |
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Post by coupe1942 on Sept 22, 2013 23:38:49 GMT 1
I was just in Abilene this weekend, where they recently opened a British and Irish shop. It is likely to fail pretty quickly,as it is cowboy country and not exactly a place where the cowboys will hang out to sip tea, purchase flags of the country, munch on the candies they served or purchase a tea pot or double top bus charm. Yup, the cow town of Abilene is much more apt to buy Lee jeans, big diamond studded belt buckles and Stetson hats. However, we stopped by to see what they offered and Marmite was indeed one product on the shelf there. :-)
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Post by iandhunt on Sept 30, 2013 2:31:38 GMT 1
I was just in Abilene this weekend, where they recently opened a British and Irish shop. It is likely to fail pretty quickly,as it is cowboy country and not exactly a place where the cowboys will hang out to sip tea, purchase flags of the country, munch on the candies they served or purchase a tea pot or double top bus charm. Yup, the cow town of Abilene is much more apt to buy Lee jeans, big diamond studded belt buckles and Stetson hats. However, we stopped by to see what they offered and Marmite was indeed one product on the shelf there. :-) You gonna sport a ten gallon hat pretty soon? |
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Post by coupe1942 on Sept 30, 2013 20:43:27 GMT 1
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Post by renard80 on Sept 30, 2013 23:00:15 GMT 1
And there was I thinking that nobody could be a bigger nutcase than Toff with his Mr Squeaks . . . It's a shame that so much ocean separates you two. You were made for each other!  |
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Post by rehdude37 on Oct 2, 2013 20:55:16 GMT 1
Some of you may remember this recent post of mine: My supercub days are over for me, at least for a while. After loosing (physically, not crashes) my first two cubs, and then a trail of 3 fuselage and 2 wings I finally was able to enjoy over 20 good flights, the last 15 or so with ailerons, A few days ago I hit a power line and really crunched my fuselage. Not wanting to buy yet another fuselage I tried to repair the damage. Got it all back together and even waisted a day trying to pretty it up, figuring I was having such good flights under my belt that many more flights were still left in her. A simple hand launch was quickly followed by a gigantic loop with no control smack down onto a sidewalk. Total destruction of both the front and rear fuselage has me deciding to make a fresh start with a new type of cub. Next payday I'm ordering a Multiplex Fun Cub and putting all my flight electronics and Park 480 power pack in the new plane and starting from scratch from there. Well, as you all know, once the flying bug has bitten you good, the very idea of sitting around without any plane to fly for the next three weeks was killing me! I was sitting there looking at the carnage on my work bench, tail feathers broken cleanly off, front of fuselage from the top front edge of the wing saddle to about 1 1/2" in front of the battery box totally demolished, and then I started thinking (oh no, you know where this is headed!). So I remembered I had reinforced the edges of my battery box and electronics bay with sheets of basswood following another earlier mishap, so the center of the fuselage was fully intact. I had a sheet of 1/8" plywood sitting there, and said to myself, I'll just build a new front end and see what happens! I just free-handed an outline of a new front end on cardstock and began cutting. I glued the front end extensions to the sides of the basswood inside the electronics bay, added a cross brace and then eyeballed what I thought would be an appropriate amount of down and side thrust angles and glued a plywood firewall to the whole contraption. Glued the tail end back together with a few wood skewers for added strength. Here are so pictures to show how truly ugly this whole contraption is! The "before" picture:  After the new nose was glued up:  And the resulting "beast"  Now honestly, I gave this contraption no chance of anything except perhaps a spectacular loop and crash, or perhaps an equally impressive corkscrew straight up followed by an equally impressive dive back down onto the runway! Well, it was a bit breezy, and I normally would never attempt a first flight like this under anything other than ideal flying weather, but as I said, I really didn't have much hope for this thing actually flying. So, I prefighted thoroughly, pointed it into the wind and hit the pushed the throttle ahead cautiously, watching for any bad tendencies as it gained flying speed. When much to my amazement (no doubt akin to the astonishment of those watching the "Flight of the Phoenix" as it took off) she rose gracefully and tracked true into the wind. Gained a little altitude, did a few circuits around the landing pattern and brought it down for a very nice landing! Still shaking my head in amazement, I wasn't about to tempt fate twice and loaded it into the back of my CRV and giggled all the way home! |
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Post by rehdude37 on Oct 2, 2013 20:55:59 GMT 1
Well I don't feel so bad now , just lost my first SuperCub last night - still looking though!
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Post by Crazy Horse on Oct 3, 2013 9:32:45 GMT 1
I was just in Abilene this weekend, where they recently opened a British and Irish shop. It is likely to fail pretty quickly,as it is cowboy country and not exactly a place where the cowboys will hang out to sip tea, purchase flags of the country, munch on the candies they served or purchase a tea pot or double top bus charm. Yup, the cow town of Abilene is much more apt to buy Lee jeans, big diamond studded belt buckles and Stetson hats. However, we stopped by to see what they offered and Marmite was indeed one product on the shelf there. :-) MARMITE, Ooooh Yes Sir! I wonder if those good old cowboys are ready for such delights, after all they must be so used to melting their cows down to make a substitute that their taste buds are traumatised. I also wear Lee jeans, but leave the diamond studded belt buckles to the ladies, more their style. Stetson hats are OK, but you know what they say about the bigger a chaps hat, the smaller his .......imagination perhaps?  One doesn't munch on candies, one eats sweets that cook has lovingly made in the kitchen. Double top bus charm? Better than a diamond studded belt buckle any day! |
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