HELP:Aeronca Champ or J3 Cub V speed?

On 30 May 2006 09:58:06 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote:

the J-3
requires slippers (because your feet have to wrap around the peddle to
access the brake

I use hiking boots!

I'm not sure how you're visualizing the J-3 brakes. They are beneath
the rudder pedal. Applying them requires you merely to keep your toes
in the air while applying pressure with your heel, which can be done
in anything short of a plastic ski boot. Very good exercise for the
Achilles tendon, too

It's true I suppose that a size 12 foot with Vibram soled boots would
have a bit of difficulty.



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Gee, I recall that when I got checked out in the J-4 the speeds were

Climb 50
Cruise 50
Approach 50
get scared if over 60 or less than 40.


Brian


Cub Driver wrote:
On 30 May 2006 07:23:58 -0700, wrote:

Does anyone have a handy operation manual

to check out either Aeronca 7AC Champ or J3 Cub's V
speed? Thank you very much.

Of course there is no operation manual for the J-3, but here are the
figures given me in ground school:

Cruise 73 mph
Top 83 mph
Stall 39 mph
Best glide 50 mph
Green arc 39-90 mph (of course, neither is there any green arc!)
Yellow arc 90-122 mph
Red line 122 mph

That said, I would *never* fly a 60-year-old Cub at 122 mph!


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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