From the April, 1941 issue of Popular Science, by way of the fascinating (but NOT 100% family friendly) Modern Mechanix blog.
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From the April, 1941 issue of Popular Science, by way of the fascinating (but NOT 100% family friendly) Modern Mechanix blog.
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Real Cubs don't need no stinking starter!
I'll have to print this out...we were just talking about this last week in the shop!:cool:
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.
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Fantastic - I wouldn't have guessed that any of these survived! Thanks for letting us know,
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.
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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http://books.google.com/books?id=RGY...rplane&f=false
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.