Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Piper J3 Cub - Brand New / Modernized

I just wish that somebody would make a Rotax Cub clone.  The Continental makes the current birds impractical for a flight school. I'd love to have a Cub clone on the line though.

Helen

On 1/23/2011 1:09 AM, Jerry Gorman wrote:

Look at virtualultralightmuseum.com for some J3 Cub ultralight lookalikes. Jerry, the Curator

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From: Peter Walker <peterwalker58@yahoo.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, January 22, 2011 6:05:31 PM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Piper J3 Cub - Brand New / Modernized

 

Hello A Cub is made using skilled labour with lots of small parts if you stay as a tube and rag plane Lots of the cutting can be done on machines but it still needs assembling and welding Piper need to use the QA system and management in place already both which add significantly to the costs Cub Crafters have a much smaller overhead as it is tailored to the target markets needs  Do the numbers Cessna builds 300 or so 162's a year If Piper matched that and had a margin of 50K its only $15 million for a lot of infrastructure The real reason they dropped the Czech plane is likely to be compliance to Pipers QA system that left Piper at significant risk Peter --- On Sun, 1/23/11, Michael Huckle <m230683@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Michael Huckle <m230683@hotmail.com> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Piper J3 Cub - Brand New / Modernized To: "Sport Aircraft" <sport_aircraft@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sunday, January 23, 2011, 10:22 AM   > Posted by: "wj18001900" swferris@sbcglobal.net > Piper has (had) what many people feel is the ultimate recreational / > light sport aircraft in the J3 Cub. I know that there are a lot of Cub > clones out there already, but I believe that it would be a huge seller > if Piper would reintroduce a new / modernized (but very close to the > original, . . very simple / basic, . . . no / few frills), USA > manufactured version of their J3 Cub? > Posted by: "Peter Walker" peterwalker58@yahoo.com > HelloA big company like Piper cant build a Cub at a marketable price As > the plane stands it has too much skilled labour to build one ??..  What do you mean? Mike .

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