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Hal Bryan
08-24-2011, 08:09 AM
From the April, 1941 issue of Popular Science, by way of the fascinating (but NOT 100% family friendly) Modern Mechanix (http://blog.modernmechanix.com) blog.

Click to embiggen:

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Bill Greenwood
08-24-2011, 11:18 AM
Real Cubs don't need no stinking starter!

Hal Bryan
08-25-2011, 07:00 AM
Real Cubs don't need no stinking starter!

Dear Preacher Greenwood -

Amen!

Sincerely,

The Choir

:)

Chad Jensen
08-25-2011, 07:41 AM
I'll have to print this out...we were just talking about this last week in the shop!:cool:

JimRice85
08-27-2011, 11:23 AM
Real Cubs don't need no stinking starter!

Concur. Just posted a picture of my C-85 for my Cub project on another board and someone asked, "Where is the starter?" Seriously.

joseph W. Lilley
08-30-2011, 05:21 PM
We have a 1940 J5-A here at the WNC Air Museum that has what's called the Hummer Starter. Hope you can see the enclosed adds.

406407

Hal Bryan
08-30-2011, 06:43 PM
Fantastic - I wouldn't have guessed that any of these survived! Thanks for letting us know,

FlyingRon
09-01-2011, 05:48 AM
Now, it would really be something if they replaced the engine with the rubber band. A couple of years there was a plane that showed up at Oshkosh (some cub-ish taildragger, might have been a pacer, my memory is hazy) that had painted down the side of the fuselage a big twisted up rubber band.

Hal Bryan
09-01-2011, 07:16 AM
Now, it would really be something if they replaced the engine with the rubber band.

A guy named George Heaven was working on this in Van Nuys in the mid '90s. So far as I know, the full-scale version never flew, and doesn't seem to have gone beyond wingless taxi tests. Anyone know whatever happened?

Here's an article from the September 1996 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine:

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Antique Tower
09-01-2011, 05:36 PM
Didn't some World War I aircraft start by attaching a rubber belt to the prop and pulling from the side? Seems like I read that somewhere.