HobbyZone Super Cub - My New Toy
As previously mentioned I have not been having very much luck with my Harbor Freight Yellow Bee. As of right now I have 2 Yellow Bees in pieces in my garage. The main reason for that is that it is really difficult to get the thing adjusted right so that it will fly. If you do not have it adjusted right it crashes and when it crashes it breaks 
.
So I had been pleading 
my case to my wife the whole time and told her about the Super Cub. I had told here how I had talked with several different people about it and also did a lot of research about it online. I also told her that the biggest thing that sold me on the Super Cub were all the videos that I saw on YouTube. A lot of the videos were done by people that had just gotten them and they were up and flying in now time.
After a day or so of thinking my wife was ok with my getting one when I got the extra money. I figured that I could come up with the $160 within a month or two.
Well a day after I got the OK from the wife I was on Craig’s list and decided to see if anyone was selling a Super Cub. Sure enough there was a guy selling one for $100. I fired off a quick email to them to see if they still had it and if it had ever been crashed before. His reply back was that he still had it and that it had only had a few hard landings. He also mentioned that he had one of the 9.6 volt batteries for it that he was throwing in with the plane. I immediately ran to the wife and asked her if I could get it.
She said yes (I love my wife sssoooo much!).
Anyway, that afternoon I picked up the plane and went flying the next day.
I have had the plane about 3 weeks now and have had 10+ flights with it totalling in about 1 hour or more of flight time. The difference between the Yellow Bee and the Super Cub is night and day. I wish that I would have just gotten the Super Cub to begin with as it is actually fun to fly it.
Have I crashed it? Yes.
The third flight that I took it out it was too windy and I am still a noob so I crashed it and cracked the wing. I bought a new wing because the guy at the hobby shop said you cannot guy the wing but then I saw several threads where people have glued all the parts of the plane back together and that it works fine. I got some 5 minute epoxy and glued it and it is as solid as the new wing. Now I have an extra.
Anyway the Super Cub rocks and I am looking to do some arial photgraphy with it pretty soon. As my wife says - this hobby is going to get expensive - but it is sure going to be fun!
Technorati: HobbyZone Super Cub, Super Cub, RC Airplane, Hobbies
February 26th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
What is the plane’s weight ?
You can get tons of info about rc planes on rcgroups.com forums.
About the yellowbee, I made a few successful flights with 30 gram video camera onboard on it. Yeah, yellowbee is not that great at all, too easy to break and too hard to control. I lost my second plane last weekend due to the “hard turn to the right” problem.
For the wings of any plane this size or bigger, you could try to secure them with fiberglass cloth that could be bought at hobbystore. It has to be a very light cloth though.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:12 am
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