Do it again Rosie

[moon puppy]

yeah, I think I can do it better this time.

Saw it come up on ebay and figure WTH.

 

[KLOTZEN]

Cool!
Imagine then insult, ridin' around in your fresh new Daimler extra hardtop and getting smoked by an over weight Cub!
What does the first go look like?

 

[moon puppy]

What does the first go look like?

Man that one dates way back!
Got it hosted on my old website.

Web Album

Holy Cow! March 2007, 19 years ago!

 

[moon puppy]

Imagine then insult, ridin' around in your fresh new Daimler extra hartop and getting smoked by a over weight Cub!

What I read about it before, the pilot was Charles Carpenter, to quote from the wiki from him.

"word must be getting around to watch out for Cubs with bazookas on them. Every time I show up now they shoot with everything they have. They never used to bother Cubs. Bazookas must be bothering them a bit."

Charles Carpenter (pilot) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I didn't realise since I built this the first time that the original piper had been located and restored!
https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/aircrafts/piper-l4-grasshopper-rosie-the-rocketer/

And OMG, it's sitting in Hudson MA, I've been there a couple of times for work years ago. Dang I wish I had kept up on this Cub.

 

[Sharkmouth]

Well @moon puppy, since there were these two examples, I stocked up on references, should you dare test my TMI reputation!

 

[moon puppy]

Ok Saul, I'll take you up on this.
But hey, it appears we had this conversation before.

Bronco Piper Cub L4H "Rosie the Rocketer"

Do you know that the Piper J3 Club first flew in 1937 and has roots back earlier in the name of Talyor E2 which flew in 1930? Do you know they are still countless Cubs flying today. This will be a build thread for one little cub that packed a lot of wallop. 6 wallops to be exact, 6 M9? Anti...

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Moon Puppy from FSM

I got a little update that covers some AMS I’ve been dealing with. According to Saul Garcia’s review and Karl Engelskirger of Northern Ohio Museum of Aviation comments the radio that mounts in the wing root is incorrect.

Karl’s comment had a photo of the right radio that would have been used.

Well I took a crash course in USArmy radio sets of WW2 and found that the one in the reference picture is according to this site is a BC659. Of course I don’t have a BC659 laying around in 1:35 scale, or do I? The Dragon Halftrack comes with several radio sets, again using the cited website I was able to ID all of them. The large radio set, that I used on my halftrack, is the BC-684. Dragon is kind enough to send two… :face: They also send BC620 set. The BC620 looks the same as the BC659 with the exception of the speaker that is common between the BC659 and BC684 so BING.

Long story short, I do have a BC659 just laying around in 1:35 scale! After a little strategic surgery and relocate that speaker from one to the other and i’m golden! Pictures tomorrow

I think this is going to be really nice eye candy for inside this fish bowl canopy, especially with some wires coming out. I’m going to try and find some generic service plates to stick around the radio, hope no one checks to see if they are the correct ones or not…

So my questions for your research library is this. Where did I get the idea of the generator?

Also as an aside, When I built before I had an issue with the wing fitting over the canopy so I had to cut the strut and fill it in.

This widened the wing and threw off the support braces and made the cub sit with a lean that's really noticeable in one of the photos.

I have to avoid this, I've already test fitted the upper canopy in the wing join and it works fine. So I have to go slow and think about what got me in trouble. I read some other review that this was a problem with other folks builds. Let's see if we can correct that this time.

 

[moon puppy]

Wow, what a trip. Our departed pal John Eaton commented about the power for the radio.

I think a radio would have to be battery or wind generator powered, the Cub had no engine mounted generator or other electrical components normally. The ignition system was not normally shielded either. With two on board there is also limited useful load for such things. Most Cubs weighed about 750 pounds empty, and the gross was about 1200 pounds.