WOW, this is a treasure trove on info. Thanks for posing this! Crome molly welding, jigs and nibblers, rib forming, rag work. This is the kind of thing I hoped youtube would be. Added to my favorites.
Every single airplane enthusiast who has so much as DREAMED of building their own aircraft has got to be drooling over the tools and dies featured in this video.......
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This is a great find. Thanks for posting this. I'm a fractional owner of a J3C-65 built in 1946. It's good to see what went into the construction. In two weeks it's getting an annual inspection and some maintenance. With around 300 hours of flight in Tricycle aircraft I'm 6.5 hours and about 25 landings in my "new" cub, which is only one year younger than me. :-)
Great to see a movie like this preserved. Nice insight into the good old days! First airplane I ever saw on the ground was a J3 all alone on a grass field.
Thank you Mr. Sturm. I thoroughly enjoy your uploads. I must say, reading the first few comments, that there are many contributors who are obtuse about what they think they know.
I built several all metal experimentals, one in kit form and others from scratch off drawings as well as a 'plastic' airplane (composite) but still yearn for a wood and tube build using the time honored methods shown here, the cubs were magnificent feats of engineering with few modern day equals in legend and longevity.
Incredible plane ....great design of this plane is great too..the information is also great too..Awesome job.. thank you for your video's and I do greatly appreciate it too..
Superb design, brilliant and simple. Hats off to the many smart young men and women who contributed to the construction of this great airplane that trained so many pilots for the job ahead.
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Glad the film was converted to video to preserve it. The deterioration was pretty bad in some places. Great to see the technology of the time building the craft.
simple but yet still soo much goes into its production. Every piece categorized and right size. Amazing to think they had all this going a mere 40 years after 1st flight in aviation.
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Years ago when preparing to take a checkride for my flight instructor rating, I needed training (and sign-off) for spins and recoveries into/out of both directions. And that training was in a J-3 Cub. It was the most fun I'd had in aviation up to that point. This is when I was young, limber and skinny mind you...so fitting into a Cub was much easier.
I think that is actually a J5 Cruiser he is flying. Notice the door is not the half doors of a J3, the fuel filler is not behind the engine, and that the pilot flies from the front seat.
Agreed, several telling differences in shape and size. The J5 first appeared at the compass swing part of the video and from then on ...although I think the manufacturing shown was for the J3
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Recien lo vi de casualidad lo encontre esto es un lujo dan ganas de hacerse uno y lo digo porque en su momento compre los planos para hacer unpo similar la verda es un lujo ver esto
Reasonable to assume the narrator was using a script made available the manufacturer. Perhaps balance was the word they used to describe the function of ailerons.
If this was filmed in 1943 then these are probably being built for the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Only aircraft built for war needs were built during the war. Most Cubs at this time were being built as L-4s for artillery spotting purposes.
+Z Reviews The test pilot gets to test out his parachute ;) Also a plane can fail the test for certification by not recovering in the time allowed yet still fly.
You might have noticed that the factory test pilots were wearing parachutes. Based on the cramped rear cockpit in my J3C I can't imagine wearing a back pack parachute while flying a Cub. The failure of the airplane during the first flight is why test pilots wear parachutes and sometimes crash helmets.
very nice video, they say that no girl is welding in the important steps, lol because they don't have the skills for that job....lol but I like this video, they show everything, spiking about rivets and nuts, and controls, all the info you have to take for a structural repair.. better than HOW IS MADE show!! this is a bad ass info.. learn from this Discovery Channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello I am from Chile and I'm trying to build an ultralight plane Might ajudarme with a diagram of the cables connecting the aileron control stick wings thanks. christian greetings.
+GEZZA1 I think you're a little off there ;) there are plenty of modern aircraft that still use pulley and cable control systems.As far as electric motor controls go,I am assuming you are referring to hydraulic systems?Or possibly fly by wire that generally uses hydraulics........either way neither of these would apply to a ultralight in the US or abroad and most ultralights outside of the USA are what we tend to consider Light Sport aircraft that can be pretty advanced planes.
+MrSkipF Sorry while it looks like brazing it is oxy welding and that is how it was done before TIG welding came about and believe it or not it is still done this way in a lot of aircraft shops.My grandfather schooled me on this years ago when I had a dirtbike frame that kept cracking.After about the 3rd time doing it with a MIG and failing he yelled telling me to bring the god damned thing to the shop so he could fix it.I started to say that he didnt have the right welder but he shut that down lol.I was shocked at the result as it was a very clean weld and if you have the skills it can do aluminum too.
