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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Hal Bryan
EAA Lifetime 638979
Vintage 714005 | Warbirds 553527
Managing Editor
EAA—The Spirit of Aviation
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!
Chad Jensen
EAA #755575
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.
Fantastic - I wouldn't have guessed that any of these survived! Thanks for letting us know,
Hal Bryan
EAA Lifetime 638979
Vintage 714005 | Warbirds 553527
Managing Editor
EAA—The Spirit of Aviation
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:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RGY...rplane&f=false
Last edited by Hal Bryan; 09-01-2011 at 07:18 AM.
Hal Bryan
EAA Lifetime 638979
Vintage 714005 | Warbirds 553527
Managing Editor
EAA—The Spirit of Aviation
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.