Interesting note on fuel gauge. I was flying hours off a VP1, after an hour I noticed the wire had not moved. You have to unbutton your seat belt and lean over the wind screen to get to it. But I was young and dumb. When I touched it, it dropped and made an audiable clinck. That 3 min flight back to the airport took 3 hours.
I feel you, man ! we've all had this kinda moment... in the air, on the sea or ground... if you make it, you've got some story to tell and a good lesson in pre-run checklist !
In fairness, the cub has such a low stall speed/takeoff. That is as long as you have clear fields around. You could land it somewhere put a couple gallons back in it and fly out
@@cmendoza1094 what do planes do? Fly in the air. How do you test planes? Fly in the air, can't test a plane on the ground. You usually test in a sparsely populated area too. Btw just because it's experimental doesn't mean it is gonna fall apart midflight or nose dive into a school, it just means its one of a kind and hasn't been mass produced. I guarantee 100% that less experimental planes have crashed than ones that aren't. (Any plane can crash or fuck up btw, just takes one catastrophic event and that can happen to literally anyone. So you should say, "I can't believe we have any planes at all flying thousands of feet in the air above us) I'd say experimental planes have a less chance to crash by default as well, because you have no profit incentives to be unsafe like airlines do like making pilots fly too long so you can get one more flight out of them, not doing maintenance that isnt strictly mandated vy the faa, etc. Even if the companies act exactly as they should, the engineers and mechanics who fix the plane could fuck up or just not do their job! It's happened way more times than youd like to imagine. So in Conclusion, every plane is dangerous, but the ones who have to fly thousands and thousands of flight are more so.
In 1957, I was 5 and my uncle was 19. My parents let me go flying with him shortly after he soloed. We went up in a J-3. Flip the prop, yank the chocks, bounce down a grass strip, off we go! It was the singular most exciting thing to happen to me for many years.
Was in Civil Air Patrol in my late teens, as a pilot. Squadron had an L-4 - basically a stripped down J-3. No fabric on the inside, only on the outside. the entry was a clamshell - 1/2 up & 1/2 down. and 4 instruments - engine rpm, airspeed, altimeter & compass. oops 5 - the wire gas guage. The compass was a stuck-on device on the dash - it had lost its fluid long ago. The altimeter would stick until you got up to around 5 or 6,000 feet. but since we knew the area and there were a lot of hills of different height those were not problems. Dad & I were trading off taking up cadets for 'Orientation' rides, basically giving them a birds-eye view of their schools and homes. My turn came again & we traded places & cadets. I headed to runway [2400' uncontrolled, no radio anyway], did run-up, checked aileron etc for function then started take-off run. Nice head wind had us lifting off the ground in about 100 feet, whereupon I looked down to check airspeed - the needle was securely nested at 0 mph. Um - small problem. headed to practice area to do stalls until I could hear the speed changing in the wind thru the struts. Came in a little hot, but landed safely. Next time the squadron saw the little hummer, it sported an 80 hp engine [nearly double the 45 hp we were flying with] and EDO-13 floats. All the squadron pilots got seaplane rated. Lots of good memories from the 1970's.
Boy, I miss flying those old birds. I used to wake up in the early morning and go to the airport before work and go fly for an hour 80 hours in a cub and 120 in a supercup. Both fun planes to fly.
The first time I ever left the ground in an airplane was in a J3 like that. Behind me was a Vietnam war fighter pilot. He said, "It's all yours do whatever you want." So I cut into a left bank and turned the wings almost vertical. Later he said when I went past 45° it's considered aerobatics. Then I spotted a boat below me on Lake Dallas and pretended to be a Japanese kamikaze. Dove down nearly vertical on him. At the end of the day I was sick as a dog. My instructor was chewing on a cigar the whole time and laughing. Looking back, I think he was a little tipsy. It was a simpler time. 1975.
Ain't that the truth. Learned to fly in one and it was crazy how much you could recover from. Still need to respect the danger of course, but you pretty much need to fly into an immovable object or break the airframe to kill it or you. You had to WORK to stall it and the glide ratio was comical.
And the J3 is unbelievably easy to fly. A friend of mine owned one and he told me to go ahead and take it around the patch if you want..I'd never even been near one before. Absolutely no prior instruction at all. It's so slow you can run faster on landing.
best time I ever had was in one of those out by Landers Ca with this alaskan bush pilot. he stalled it out a few times and “let me land” in a dry lake bed. It was the best flight I ever had
Be real careful changing those Bungi cords, I just about got myleft arm broken at 17 thinking I could do it without help. Dont know what to tell you about the fuel cap and cork float seen the majority of them stick Just fill it each time yoj fly and watch your time
When i was 14 I got to fly in a red baron pizza bi-plane and do acrobatics. Loops, rolls, and the pilot even cut the engine during a vertical climb, letting us fall back to earth for a bit before restarting. One of, if not the most exciting things I've ever done.
i was trained to fly in a super cub by squadron commander of p51s We also worked on the plane. It was great. 130 hp ran on car gas 100 octane I think. flew like a dream. it belong to his son who is an F-16 pilot .
Sure. I actually do have a walk around video on my page with the cowling off and go into detail about it. Here ya go th-cam.com/video/D2Mw0FxhCtE/w-d-xo.html
As a boy , dad stopped to watch planes take off at a small local airport. I watched with him. Third plane to take off a Cub, engine sputtered, and we ducked ,, how close was it ? The old light brown Chrysler bore witness a new set of stripes across the roof, that close. Dad didn't was the car or make any attempt to remove the marks, as when somebody ask what happened, did he have a story for them ....about 66 years ago Aurora , Ind.
The plane your stepdad shows up in when he tells your mom he finally passed his pilot’s license exam💀 Seriously though, I sort of love this. Ultralight and STOL is a very fun little niche of aerospace that I love to watch videos of because they are just so weird
Flew with a guy years ago. Did a loops then a stalls & spins toward the ground. I never even thought of danger, I was 17 and immortal. Talked to a coworker the next week he mentioned seeing an idiot in a Cub doing aerobatics over the weekend. 😆
@@jasmijnariel you said it perfectly! Imagine how affordable and fun a modern day, basic J-3 could be? Not the crazy expensive legend Cubs, just simple, basic J3
My dads flying carrier started in a J3 in Alaska. my dad would get carried away with the super cub and make it vomit wagon. thanks for that last flight dad, NOT, I got sick.
Interesting note on fuel gauge. I was flying hours off a VP1, after an hour I noticed the wire had not moved. You have to unbutton your seat belt and lean over the wind screen to get to it. But I was young and dumb. When I touched it, it dropped and made an audiable clinck. That 3 min flight back to the airport took 3 hours.
An "Oh Shit" moment.
Ya, I've had one or two Loooong
minutes of concern, while in the air
on my own hook.
Lol!! Now that would be a heart stopping moment
I feel you, man !
we've all had this kinda moment... in the air, on the sea or ground...
if you make it, you've got some story to tell and a good lesson in pre-run checklist !
In fairness, the cub has such a low stall speed/takeoff. That is as long as you have clear fields around. You could land it somewhere put a couple gallons back in it and fly out
You Pop's never told you to grease your rod?
My grandfather had one that had the experimental 3 cylinder radial LeNape engine.
I love how we call some airplanes experimental then proceed to fly thousands of feet in the air 😮😮😮
@@cmendoza1094I love how planes fly without power
That would be a cool sounding engine!
@@cmendoza1094 hey ,if it falls in a controllable manner....
@@cmendoza1094 what do planes do? Fly in the air. How do you test planes? Fly in the air, can't test a plane on the ground. You usually test in a sparsely populated area too. Btw just because it's experimental doesn't mean it is gonna fall apart midflight or nose dive into a school, it just means its one of a kind and hasn't been mass produced. I guarantee 100% that less experimental planes have crashed than ones that aren't. (Any plane can crash or fuck up btw, just takes one catastrophic event and that can happen to literally anyone. So you should say, "I can't believe we have any planes at all flying thousands of feet in the air above us) I'd say experimental planes have a less chance to crash by default as well, because you have no profit incentives to be unsafe like airlines do like making pilots fly too long so you can get one more flight out of them, not doing maintenance that isnt strictly mandated vy the faa, etc. Even if the companies act exactly as they should, the engineers and mechanics who fix the plane could fuck up or just not do their job! It's happened way more times than youd like to imagine. So in Conclusion, every plane is dangerous, but the ones who have to fly thousands and thousands of flight are more so.
In 1957, I was 5 and my uncle was 19. My parents let me go flying with him shortly after he soloed. We went up in a J-3. Flip the prop, yank the chocks, bounce down a grass strip, off we go! It was the singular most exciting thing to happen to me for many years.
They really are so much fun
Was in Civil Air Patrol in my late teens, as a pilot. Squadron had an L-4 - basically a stripped down J-3. No fabric on the inside, only on the outside. the entry was a clamshell - 1/2 up & 1/2 down. and 4 instruments - engine rpm, airspeed, altimeter & compass. oops 5 - the wire gas guage. The compass was a stuck-on device on the dash - it had lost its fluid long ago. The altimeter would stick until you got up to around 5 or 6,000 feet. but since we knew the area and there were a lot of hills of different height those were not problems. Dad & I were trading off taking up cadets for 'Orientation' rides, basically giving them a birds-eye view of their schools and homes. My turn came again & we traded places & cadets. I headed to runway [2400' uncontrolled, no radio anyway], did run-up, checked aileron etc for function then started take-off run. Nice head wind had us lifting off the ground in about 100 feet, whereupon I looked down to check airspeed - the needle was securely nested at 0 mph. Um - small problem. headed to practice area to do stalls until I could hear the speed changing in the wind thru the struts. Came in a little hot, but landed safely. Next time the squadron saw the little hummer, it sported an 80 hp engine [nearly double the 45 hp we were flying with] and EDO-13 floats. All the squadron pilots got seaplane rated. Lots of good memories from the 1970's.
Thanks for sharing!
I laughed at "stripped down J-3"....the cub doesn't have a whole lot left to strip!
I like it. There’s beauty in simplicity. A nice lean flying machine.
Always wondered how the bungies worked, thanks for the close up shot!
absolutely!
Flying with the door open, the lower half can be used as a stall indicator. When the door floats to the horizontal position it stalls.
Boy, I miss flying those old birds. I used to wake up in the early morning and go to the airport before work and go fly for an hour 80 hours in a cub and 120 in a supercup. Both fun planes to fly.
Both amazing
This was the first plane I ever flew, good memories
Mine aswell, i can still smell it. I loved every minute on it.
Beautiful. My dad was an amatuer pilot. We did loops , rollovers and stalls. It wants to stay in the air
Flying solo from the rear seat was pretty much standard in tandem seat aircraft of the period.
I've always been told that the Piper Cub was the plane that taught American to fly. The first plane I ever flew was a Piper Super Cub.
I caught a ride in one and it was great. Fabric, wood and steel tubes, makes for a vintage flight. 👍🇺🇸
The first time I ever left the ground in an airplane was in a J3 like that. Behind me was a Vietnam war fighter pilot. He said, "It's all yours do whatever you want." So I cut into a left bank and turned the wings almost vertical. Later he said when I went past 45° it's considered aerobatics. Then I spotted a boat below me on Lake Dallas and pretended to be a Japanese kamikaze. Dove down nearly vertical on him. At the end of the day I was sick as a dog. My instructor was chewing on a cigar the whole time and laughing. Looking back, I think he was a little tipsy.
It was a simpler time. 1975.
Not to mention it is without a doubt the most forgiving tail-dragger on the planet. The J3 was one of my first trainers.
Love the Cubby! Flew in one numerous times when I was a child and my husband flew a 1/4 scale R/C cubby years ago!
One other interesting fact on june 6th 1944 cub spotter planes took off from a converted LST during the assault very close to the landing grounds
You know it’s real when you need duct tape and/or a bungee cord.
Piper Cub j3 is one of my favorite planes❤ very nice my friend
Thank you! Such great airplanes
One of the most loved planes ever made
The J-3 is the safest plane in the world, it can just barely kill you.
Ain't that the truth. Learned to fly in one and it was crazy how much you could recover from. Still need to respect the danger of course, but you pretty much need to fly into an immovable object or break the airframe to kill it or you. You had to WORK to stall it and the glide ratio was comical.
simple IS G O O D !
5 interesting facts. The design is 100 years old and still flies as good as ever.
And the J3 is unbelievably easy to fly. A friend of mine owned one and he told me to go ahead and take it around the patch if you want..I'd never even been near one before. Absolutely no prior instruction at all. It's so slow you can run faster on landing.
best time I ever had was in one of those out by Landers Ca with this alaskan bush pilot. he stalled it out a few times and “let me land” in a dry lake bed. It was the best flight I ever had
My father had a Cub until a few years after I was born. He lost an eye so also lost his license.
Basically just some wings with an engine and nothing else, love it!
Best airplane in the world for fun, lower level sightseeing
After doing my Tail Wheel endorsement on a Super Cub - they've beeny favourite plane to fly for 50 years.
Be real careful changing those Bungi cords, I just about got myleft arm broken at 17 thinking I could do it without help. Dont know what to tell you about the fuel cap and cork float seen the majority of them stick Just fill it each time yoj fly and watch your time
Ive heard they are incredibly dangerous! Thanks
I soloed in a Super Cub in 1976. Fun times.
General Eisenhower liked to fly it in Lock Haven.
First plane I flown. After getting into RC planes. One of my flying buddies had one. He took me up. That was the easiest plane to fly.
When i was 14 I got to fly in a red baron pizza bi-plane and do acrobatics. Loops, rolls, and the pilot even cut the engine during a vertical climb, letting us fall back to earth for a bit before restarting. One of, if not the most exciting things I've ever done.
Easiest plane to fly. Simple and forgiving.
Invites the Wright Brothers for a flight. "Nah, cuz. We good."
Simple IS GOOD...!
Fuel gauge is unique. Pilot can watch it easily while flying
Love cubs real flying
I love the J3
I learned to fly and solo’d in the offspring - Supercub! Solo’d in 1984.
i was trained to fly in a super cub by squadron commander of p51s We also worked on the plane. It was great. 130 hp ran on car gas 100 octane I think. flew like a dream.
it belong to his son who is an F-16 pilot .
Can you do more videos on what the engine looks like? And how it’s built?
Sure. I actually do have a walk around video on my page with the cowling off and go into detail about it. Here ya go
th-cam.com/video/D2Mw0FxhCtE/w-d-xo.html
best things in life are the simple things !
Beautiful plane.
One of the best ever built!
This is the equivalent of a flying Trabant
Beautiful
As a boy , dad stopped to watch planes take off at a small local airport. I watched with him. Third plane to take off a Cub, engine sputtered, and we ducked ,, how close was it ? The old light brown Chrysler bore witness a new set of stripes across the roof, that close. Dad didn't was the car or make any attempt to remove the marks, as when somebody ask what happened, did he have a story for them ....about 66 years ago Aurora , Ind.
DAd had one when I was a kid! Lots and lots of memories. Like never get into a head wind!
The plane your stepdad shows up in when he tells your mom he finally passed his pilot’s license exam💀
Seriously though, I sort of love this. Ultralight and STOL is a very fun little niche of aerospace that I love to watch videos of because they are just so weird
My best flying in my life!
Keep It simple. I love it.
Looks like a blast !
Most fun you can have with your clothes on
My uncle had a red J3. Wasn't quite as cool as flying in his glider over the Main river and villages in Germany, but still very high on the list,
Flew with a guy years ago. Did a loops then a stalls & spins toward the ground. I never even thought of danger, I was 17 and immortal. Talked to a coworker the next week he mentioned seeing an idiot in a Cub doing aerobatics over the weekend. 😆
That many fewer things that can fail.
They're also a plane that a lot of people would love to own.
I wish I had bought it earlier
I never realized that the suspension was a bungee cord for the J3 and J5 cubs when I worked at airports as a kid period never picked up on it.
That's how you engineer something properly. K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid!).
No electronics, no electronic failures.
Tie down the tail wheel, use the “Armstrong starter, untie the tail wheel, run and jump in as the airplane starts moving. They were fun to fly.
I know some people tie down the tail but I just use chocks. I try to keep it the same process every time 👍🏻 (good idea though if possible)
Guillowes used to make a balsa wood model kit of a Piper Cub. Never knew they were so simple
No electrical system love it looks like a blast to fly .
You would think it had a rubber band for an engine. 😅
Excuse me Sir! It has 65 Rubber Bands 😂😂
And a Hamster Wheel turbo assist.
I imagine there might be a bicycle-mode pedal option
Did my first lessons in one….lovely plane! Enjoy it!
I wish I wish I had a bush plane.. I don't live in a country where they have them but it's my dream.
Fuel gauge is definitely a bad design choice but the rest is pretty cool
Looks good but want tundra tires on it , land anywhere!!! Flew in Alaska in one . Try the supper cub !!!
Best plane in the world❤
Agreed!
@@Bananasssssssss it flies in every corner of the world as well! I wish they made a modern version of this... but still the charisma of the old one
@@jasmijnariel you said it perfectly! Imagine how affordable and fun a modern day, basic J-3 could be? Not the crazy expensive legend Cubs, just simple, basic J3
@@Bananasssssssss yep, basic but up to date. A good wingprofile, good new instruments... A comfy seat ... and all the rest still very cub like.🥰
fantastic 👌
I want a kit fox soooo bad. I'd love to fly this.
Tell me you like to live life dangerously without telling me you like to live life dangerously....
😂😂 the old saying in the Cub is “barely flys fast enough to kill you”, lol .
I learned to fly in a piper cub………super little girl
Dang these new fangled machines!!! I swear they get more complicated every year! What’re those round black things on the bottom for?
Ain’t nothing like the good old bungie cord suspension top of the line best suspension u can have must have been so expensive to get ur hands on
What powers gauges, a magneto ? What a great little plane to own and fly as well as low maintenance. Good morning brother.
Those are traditional "Steam Gauges" No electrical needed.
NICE!!! Low tech for the win!!!
You know it!
I would love to fly in one just once
I find it astonishing that bungee cords were invented specifically for aircraft suspensions…
Wood prop. Now that's awesome
And I’m thinking that was a radio antenna. BAD FUEL GAGE
So you fly this plane like the 'Crash while driving from the back seat.' dream?
Beautiful example.
And if it stalls you can fly like a glider
If it stalls, it isn't flying.
My dads flying carrier started in a J3 in Alaska. my dad would get carried away with the super cub and make it vomit wagon. thanks for that last flight dad, NOT, I got sick.
My kind of ride!!! Save that bubble gum, you might need it...
I trust the simple geometry and the bungee cord health more than the hydraulic system in a boeing anyday lmfaoo
But those heel brakes!!! I’m still scared to try.
I LOVE THEM!. Might be weird at first but they are really intuitive.
The L-4 ( J-3 ) Stars in S4E24 “The Flying Machine” of “Combat” on YT.
The engine is a hand fed three guinea pig powered air cooled cage roller system.
ENGINE +EXHAUST looked newer😮🎉 aeronca CHAMP similar & QWITE fun
they had him a bungee cord was invented back then I don't know how long of bungee cords have been around but has been around what since they late 30s
Sounds like it would survive an EMP?
Okay but where do we mount the AIM-9?
Good ole Bazooka Joe 😂
That bungee cord looks so hoakie.
Do you control it with a Ps3 controller, too?
Iphone 😂
Imagine a turbo prop on that thing! About 1100hp
I would like to try a manual prop start I'm so ruined on the electric start...
It can save ya if ya battery dies too
and the control surfaces are fabric
Yup! Interestingly enough, most Warbirds like Mustang etc also had fabric flight controls
In flight school they say. Given half a chance small aircraft will kill you.