Alex Flies his Mini Cub First Solo Flight 

You are a natural pilot even wheeled in on a maiden. Living the dream!

Don’t worry about the worry warts or the naysayers. They’re just jealous! Great looking little plane and good job flying her. I was lucky enough to learn in a J3. What a wonderful plane and still my favorite. I worked at an FBO from age 14 and was paid in flying time. Of course I couldn’t solo till 16 so after I could fly the plane my instructor spent most of my time playing around doing things we shouldn’t do. Brings back great memories for an old man. Thanks for sharing your dream.

I’ve driven past that strip thousands of times and never seen anybody using it. Nice video.

Congrats on a great accomplishment. Specially with a 14-15 kt wind. Sure brought back 50 year old good memories of my special day in a 7AC.

Absolutely awesome and cute! Those babies are going to be pilots like Papa! I like the airplane very much!

Congrats Man on ya first Solo, its fun and at least it something you'll love ,plus the lovely scenery .

Wow, I can't believe some of the response u were getting. I grew up on a small grass strips runways. My dad built two experimental aircraft. One fabric and fiberglass. It was called a volksplane, a single seater with a converted Volkswagen engine, thus the volksplane. It had a bobber gas moniter just like yours. Open cockpit, I mean my old man was tall and to me a 11year old kid it looked like he was sticking right out there. I helped him build it, pushing the large needle thu the wing at the ribs I got to see all aspects of the build. The second was a aluminum build , called the Ginnies Tiny. Same kind of engine. I got my check outs in Cubs, Super Cubs with pontunes and our fav, and eventually mine a Cetabria Decathlon, yellow with white strips. That was so much fun, u would be working up a sweat looping and rolling around. So don't let the wannabees bring u down. Go flying and have a ball. Our favorite thing to do is to go to the flyins and have a great breakfast with real pilots.

Congratulations, Alex! You're living my dream. Way to go!

I soloed in a Taylor Craft in 1954. I was nervous but everything went well. I did bounce a couple of times . A friend of mine soloed right after me. He was about to touch down when he flared off to the right, flew between two hangers, and finally got on track, went around and came in ok the second try. Our field had a large highway overpass at one end and grain elevators at the other - made it fun for take off and landing. Anther friend had an AT-6 who he wrapped around a telephone pole after barely clearing the overpass - he lived!

I am pumped seeing this!! Congrats my man awesome solo. I got to see you fly with a few hours under your belt and your landings have already improved. Cant wait for some more formation flying with Doug up with us next time. You guys were totally right, i'm hooked, been talking about it all day!!

Handled that crosswind like a champ

I use to have dreams as a little boy of flying out of our paved driveway in a MINI PLANE like this!😃😐

Hah! I recognize that little bitty "airport" in Oregon. Bravo for one of our own!

That was an awesome first flight, dude! Congrats and enjoy the plane, it's nice looking mini beast!

Great video and a beautiful little plane you have built.

Awesome flight, from one pilot to another!

Thank you very much for sharing your completed dream with me. Job, well done. ! Long before my birth my father flew a 51d Mustang in the 8th Air Force 111 tactical Recon. Many decades later I had a personal Hands-On taste with a Cessna Skyhawk ll. It was love at first flight. But bills came in and the dream went flat. Flying seem simple. It embraces freedom that all souls crave yet so few know. Enter this age. Technology is a gòod thing in the cockpit, but the paperwork to fly it could choke even mightiest engines. Just before looking at your video. I was looking at the retrofitting of an instrument panel. I was ready to jump off the roof of my apartment building. Rules and regs, forced compliance. And I then I saw your simplistic functional fun creation. It is what Aviation should be. You build. You fly. You Feel Complete! Again Congratulations, and thank you.

GREAT BUILD ALEX = LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. I would paint that baby red or blue or green.

That landing was a greaser. Beautiful. Congrats

The thumbnail caught my eye. lol... It's funny you mention fpv in the description. My first Rc plane was a Super Cub. I ended up painting, damn near, the same color green stripe! Great video, and belated congrats to Alex.

Sassy looking little aircraft.... Miles of smiles, I'm sure...! Thanks for a nice Vid, Gordon

Glad you completed it and was able to get it in the air. My brother built one and had it complete except for putting the skin on the wings. He only had a few months work left when he suddenly passed away last September. Enjoy your aircraft and beautiful family. You're a lucky guy.

Congratulations on the first flight belated! Beautiful plane. I live on Mt. Tom and saw the background scenery. Just stumbled on your video surfing the Tube. I'm a pilot too. EAA out of Creswell.

Thank for taking us along beautiful your To be envede. What was your crushing speed ?

Beautiful!! Great JOB, Roger!!!

Very cool to see. Started watching your chanel for fpv, stayed for real planes. :)

nice flight!!! and a super landing, happy landing!

Nice job all the way.........very cool relaxed look on landing...........and the kids are a 10+ in cuteness...........say hi to Tim up there...........

Very nice bird. Flying back when it was a simpler time.

Amazing and awesome old flying machine...(in a GREAT way)..☺️☺️👍👍👍

Great video and plane. Thank you.

No doubt Military Man! Thank you Sir! Great Pilot!

I have to fly my R C cub at least once... before moving up to a mini cub........but Im Ready!!! Very Cool

So Exciting! One day!

Very cool first flight - nice!

Congratulations to your friend :) He looks like sometimes to Josh Bixler lol Have a great new week

OK DADDY IS GOING UP! Man, his wife didn't even flinch! Did he just sign a life insurance policy that day?

GOOD JOB and NICE FAMILY.

Well done I would check the canvas over the tail it’s showing creases meaning there could be twisting going on in the wooden fuse , would be good to check , nic3 plane good flight

Fantastic! DAY For Flying

That was a nice landing you did

He's Way Up There!!

Looking Good!!

Congratulations! such a smooth flight ops. .

Alex needs to hold the stick back all the way during taxi, would not want to see a nose over! cool little plane, and so good to see you guys having fun!

Мои поздравления! Воплотил мою мечту в реальность! =)

Congrats

Thought that looked like central Oregon. We drove past one of these, at 45 mph, in my F150 and the draft made it airborne!

Sky!! Pretty Clear

Never saw an aircraft with a pull start before, pretty cool. Needs tundra tires; very, very, light ones.

Ok kids when you see a small, very small ball of fire, Daddy has made a landing and the insurance company will be visiting us.

That Was Great!!!

So awesome, he didn’t want to come down

Great Fun, Cool and Funny ! Why the few dislikes ... ? Oh wait I know : Those whom survived a rectal birth perhaps

This is the guy that takes the order in the drive thru?

like that little plane. pull start, pump gas, direct read fuel gauge, looks simple. i'm into simple. Not a lot to break or have electrical failures . the landing lite is a 4 cell ray-o-vac. lol

Will See you on NEXT ONE!!!

One nice little bird, bet she flys smoth

It brings back memories.

Good job man.

MAN! I am happy for you!

Your radio was the problem for communications. The handheld one on the ground was clear, as was the Skyhawks. Simple elimination, next flight, switch to the handheld on the ground. If still bad news, it has to be some grounding problem in your aircraft.

That mini cub us very elegant, but I always felt that those type of old wing tips could be greatly improved, as nature's own evolution has shown how to optimise the wing tips it. In all fins and tails of fish, including dolphins and whales and also all types of birds, both the leading and trailing edges of their wing or fin or tail are RAKED BACK. The dynamics at the wing tips are much better if at the wing tips both the leading and trailing edges are raked back . I do find it interesting how such curves at wing tips were not included before and we had to wait such a long time . I like the wing tips on the modern 777 and others. I feel that early designers only noted the outer line of the wing tip in birds and so they just copied the outer outline as in the Hurricane and the Spitfire which did have amongst other defects a high speed stall due to the trailing edge at the wing tip raking forward. In fact the ME109, the P51 Mustang and the Spitfire itself had its wing clipped . The dynamics around the wing tips are very interesting and I designed sea propellers where not only the wing tips were made as I stated, but also around the hub to about .3 of the radius of the prop, the pitch was reduced to that of the fastest speed of the craft and through that we gained a better standing start. The inner part of the prop at slow speed operates more like a paddle wheel rather than a propeller so one can modify it as I stated to gain some advantage, after all the main propulsion comes from the outer 0.7 of the radius of the prop.

Awesome, thank you for posting this!

Good for you , well done !!!

Hi Alex... Steven & Karen here from Columbus, Ohio...Around the Bexely and Whitehall area if you've ever been to Columbus before...ha ha ha ha...and giggle giggle... We wanted to say great job and congrats to you on your solo mini Cub....Nice smooth landing Alex....Keep up the good work...just always Remember to put safety first buddy...Now, My wife has a question for you....?? Our weed whacker motor came up missing the other day.....Would you know anything about this Alex....lol Take Care all of you...P.S. I really do want to know...what kind of motor is that....Snowmobile...?? Please lmk ... thanks

Fantastic!! COOL

Just saw it was deregistered?? It flew quite well, what happened? I also saw you are not too far from my home base Grants Pass.

I want. Gotta wonder what kinda mileage you get

Fuselage looks more like a Stinson with a cub tail and Taylor wings nice

Awesome ! That's got to be a great feeling, first flight... just curious ,what kind of engine do you have in it ?

Very nice

Ignore those criticizing his decisions. Life is a balance of risk and safety, and we all have our boundary lines. If a few people didn't make decisions like this a few hundred years ago, we wouldn't have been flying yet.

LOL "even got a place back here for your cat or your dog!"

Plane-in-a-box. That fuselage skin looks a bit slack on the rear dude. Tissue paper and dope? 😂 good job.done some floating about in the past myself.

congrats Alex

what a beautiful little bird.And what a nice landing. here in my part of heaven there are a lot of simular little aircraft called CHUCK BIRDS. A fellow by the name of Chuck Beeson designto fly, ed them after the single seat Pietenpol called a SKYSCOUT. my guess them and this georgous little bird are very much the same

Oh yeah Tom Cruise , " Highway To The I've lost my mind Zone" lol

Congratulations! Great video.

Love it, lil baby cakes are doing pre-flight check.

Absolutely greased it!!!! Well done!!!!

Should put an old school glasspack muffler on her. Sound like an old hot rod.

So, the bobber (Fuel level) is actually a float from a carburetor. An old Rochester perhaps?

Interesting shovel handle stick grip! LOL I was considering one too for my FP 404

I thought for sure he was going to say 'Tell my wife I love her very much- she kno oh oh oooohs." LOL

Is this a part 103 ultralight?

Just plain sweet.

Why is the fabric so loose on the rear fusalage around 12:55????

hey, you really stuck that landing!!

Love the pull start. How are you enjoying it now that you've had it a while. Taken any long trips?

How is the Hytek Hurricane?

is this a Fisher FP202?

Is this an n3 pup?

Nice job guys 😉

I enjoyed the flight.

COMEING DOWN!!

Alright!! We Have Lift OFF

Fun bird. Good luck

How long your wing?

Nice landing in that flying lawn mower. =)