{"id":47,"date":"2007-04-08T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/08\/the-super-cub-is-only-a-memory\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:23","slug":"the-super-cub-is-only-a-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/08\/the-super-cub-is-only-a-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Super Cub is Only a Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the day finally came: My Super Cub&#8217;s last flight. After strapping a co-workers shock resistant camera to the fuselage, I took off for some aerial video. Unfortunately, a rubber band broke during flight, causing the wing to shift around. One thing led to another, and the plane ended up in a cork-screw spiral of death straight into the ground. Here&#8217;s the post-mortum video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dYgSiWXRO3U\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dYgSiWXRO3U\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Just for the record, the Cub was running a new Tower Pro Brushless 2908-10 motor with 8-cell Elite 1500mah NiMH battery pack with a Spektrum DX6 radio and S75 servos for rudder, elevator, and ailerons. What a great plane! Here&#8217;s a fly-by with this setup:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PGQ89W1rciA\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PGQ89W1rciA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>My next plane will probably be a GWS Formosa.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace Super Cub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the day finally came: My Super Cub&#8217;s last flight. After strapping a co-workers shock resistant camera to the fuselage, I took off for some aerial video. Unfortunately, a rubber band broke during flight, causing the wing to shift around. One thing led to another, and the plane ended up in a cork-screw spiral of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}