June 17, 2010 - EAA Chapter Meeting
Turbo Cub Project
This month's EAA Chapter meeting was at a member Paul's house to see his TurboCub project.
Actually, the meeting was in his garage/workshop, and what a shop! Large, clean, well lit -- a builder's dream shop.
Paul's floorboards were a thing of beauty. He
applied something like five coats of Min-wax. They could serve
as Panel!
Notice how long the aft floorboard is. It's
intentionally long so the pilot can land, remove the rear seat, and have
room to stretch out and sleep in the plane. A door goes on
that trapezoidal side shape making it easy to load cargo.
Paul hasn't done much to the wings. This is how they
come.
The Turbo Cub's main spar is quite a bit different from my
old Citabria's wood spar.
Paul is putting an O-360 on this plane. It'll be an
awesome bush plane.
