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Airplane's
For anyone interested in flying, here is a very
economical way to do so.
The Ultralight flier envies the Cessna flier.
The Cessna flier envies the twin engine Beechcraft flier and etc. all
the way to the jumbo jet pilot...
Whoever sees the Ultralight pilot and envies him thinks.......
"Now that's flying"
This is the second Ultralight that I built and sold.
Scratch building yourself an airplane is an exciting and rewarding project, especially when the time comes to take that first flight! There's just nothing like taking off for the first time, climbing above the fields and trees, in a plane that you crafted with your own hands. The time spent pouring over the plans and fashioning the many parts, seems a small price to pay for such a thrill!
Tiger Cub Ultralight
The Tiger Cub UL can be scratch built from plans making it very
economical to build!
The airframe is built of aluminum tubing with aluminum gussets and
brackets at the joints, fastened together with bolts and rivets.
Johnston Aviation can provide you with a very detailed set of plans that
will guide you, step by step through the process, in a logical and
progressive order, from ordering the materials ( down to the last bolt
and washer), to going through the preflight check list, in preparation
for your first flight!
A technical assistance line is maintained to answer any questions that
may come up during construction.
The plans include a complete materials and vender list.
The material list gives a list of the sizes and amounts of all the
aluminum and chrome molly tube and sheet needed to build the airframe, a
list of all the An hardware sizes and quantities needed and a list of
all the rest of the materials needed to complete the airplane, with
descriptions and venders part numbers for hard to find or describe
parts.
The vender list is a listing of all the venders that we buy materials
from and what materials they carry.
All the materials needed to build a Tiger Cub UL (less engine prop and
instruments) can be purchased from these venders for under $4500.00 as
of 1/07.
The plans have full size prints of all the gussets
The gusset prints are organized by thickness from .025 to .125 the
patterns can be cut out and traced onto the aluminum sheet with a fine
tipped marker. No scaling from the plans required! directions and tips
for cutting out the gussets are included in part one of the assembly
manual.
Full size prints, of the chromemoly and machined parts, are included.
If you don't weld or have access to machines these prints can be taken
to a local fabricating shop or machine shop, or they can be purchased
ready made from Johnston Aviation.
¼ scale prints (19" by 30" prints) of the wings, tail surfaces, fuselage
and bulkhead panels. The panel prints have all the measurements needed
to lay out the part on your work table, so you don't have to scale your
measurements from the prints, eliminating a common source of errors.
The plans also include an assembly manual (over 200 - 11" by 17" ) pages
of pictures and text), that gives step by step directions and tips to
guide you through assembly, rigging, covering, wiring, plumbing and
finishing.
Available since Jan. of 2000, over 300 sets of plans have been shipped
(as of 1/2007) and Tiger Cub UL's are going together all over the world.
Est. build time for scratch built...650 hrs.
Price for a complete set of plans $250.00, Too order send check or money
order to,
Johnston Aviation
407 Morganza rd.
Canonsburg, Pa. 15317
724 745 4040
To make the building process faster Johnston Aviation also offers:
Parts packages
Visit the Tiger Cub website for more great offers from Johnston Aviation
including a two place Airplane.
Click here for Plans, Kits or complete Airplanes.
Tiger Cub Ultralight Airplane
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My Tiger Cub
I begin building my Tiger cub in May 2007
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5000 + rivets later
My first flight in my Tiger Cub, September 20 2008
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Upgrades and modifications to my Tiger Cub from
factory specs are as follows
1- Chrome molly 4130 tail post and in the lower section of the
rudder
2- Larger 5/16" diameter tubing on the trailing edge of the tail
section and flapperon's
3- Diagonal bracing on the flapperon control arm
4- 7/8” 0.58 insert inside the flapperon control arm cross shaft.
5- Added a 1” 0.58 tube between the rear landing U brackets with a
1” X 4” 0.58 plate on each side and longer bolts to accommodate (3
rivets per plate)
6- Felt on leading edge of each wing with nine 1/2” dia. tube ribs
per wing, 1.7 oz. cloth riveted every 6” top and bottom, Velcro gap
seal glued on, 5 inspection rings and 2 drain grommets per wing.
7- Cross braces on the over head cabin bows to the front
header tube. From where the rear of the windshield attaches.
8- Streamlined struts and jury struts (Chrome molly 4130 jury struts
brackets were installed in each wing after the bottom cloth was
attached and shrunk)
9- Galvanized firewall with high temp foam rubber sound barrier
glued on inside cockpit.
10- Avid disc brakes with heal pedals
11- 800 x 6 tundra tires on 6” Azusa aluminum rims machined for
3/4"X 1- 5/8” precision seal bearings
12- Cotter pin installed in stub end of axles as a safety precaution
of loose locking collar
13- Chrome molly 4130 streamlined Landing gear cross brace.
14- Fan cooled Rotax 503 with single Bing 54/36 carburetor, Dual
Ducati ignition, BR8EIX spark plugs (with holes drilled into cooling
shroud to install ties around wire ends to prevent plug wires from
falling off), provision 8 - 2.58 to 1 B gear box, EGT threaded
exhaust manifold, standard muffler with silencer, 62” ground
adjustable GSC tech 2 prop with leading edge tape, 8” scull cap prop
spinner and a Rotax electric starter.
15- Instrument panel is mounted on 6 rubber standoffs with the
following instruments installed - EGT, CHT, Tachometer, Vertical
speed indicator, Air speed indicator, Bank and slip indicator, Fuel
pressure gauge, Vertical card compass, Vacuum gauge, Attitude Gyro
(with regulator, filter and exterior mounted Ventura),
Vanier throttle control, plunger fuel primmer, electric fuel pump in
series with Mikuni fuel pump, fuel filter and shutoff valve, 5
gallon fuel tank, voltage regulator, keyed ignition magneto test
switch, push button Starter switch, Potter Brumfield aircraft
circuit breakers on all electrical circuits and pull to unlock
aircraft type electrical toggle switches.
16- 2 hinges in the lower engine cover (1 on each side of the
exhaust silencer)
17- Spring loaded Door latch (operational both
inside and outside)
18- both right and left windows that will be able to open with
spring loaded latches or can be removed.
19- Pressurized fuel tank vent tube.
20- 6" x 1.25" pneumatic tail wheel.
October 2008
21- After my first test flight and having done the weight and
balance I have decided to move my engine back as close as possible
to the firewall so as not to have so much added weight in the tail.
I have moved it back 2 3/4 inches with a 1 1/2" muffler clearance to
the firewall and added a fiberglass heat shield to the firewall.
I will installed Muffler wrap to the muffler and exhaust system.
My new engine cover will have a row of louvers installed for the
engine fan outlet hole.
I will take more pictures latter.
I found the covering process to be the simplest
thing to do on my Tiger cub after watching the DVD’s from
http://www.stewartsystems.aero/
I bought all my covering products from them at a very good price.
And used it all without any special breathing apparatus right in my
living room.
They do not have their DVD’s on the web site yet but you can get
them by calling #1-888-EKO-POLY
One construction tip to center drill your small
tubing is to use a 3 or 4” long piece of 1/8"x1/2"x1/2” angle with a
1/8” hole drilled in the V 1/8” from the end. Then turn it over and
place it on your tubing to use as a drill guide. It will stop the
drill from walking off the tube center.
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My Wife's SMART toy
We get 38 to 42 miles per gallon!
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Quotes I live by
Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you
with experience.
Either, Lead - Follow; or get the hell out of my way.
Being on the tightrope is living; Everything else is waiting.
Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Being an egotistical a--hole, I DO IT MY WAY (after I get
my wife's permission).
(Written by Wayne Pederson. If it fits, you can quote me)
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS
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