I was pleasantly surprised to find that HobbyZone did a fine job of securely compartmentalizing all of the Super Cub’s components inside a thick, Styrofoam shell, and sealed with bubble wrap and packing tape. Hobby Zone’s Super Cub S is marketed to beginners, so while my knowledge of flying is limited, I hope my unique perspective will be useful to others who are fresh to the model aircraft scene. If not for my video work, my internship at the AMA would have ended a long time ago, because I know next to nothing about model airplanes. I'm piling up planes in boxes but the SC will be my plane for a good while yet as I learn to fly.The model that taught an AMA intern how to fly.įlying is certainly not my forte. I'll fly this plane like this for a while, get better, then the next fuse and wing are ready for the new motor and will get ailerons. So, all in all, definitely worth the effort and a gratifying modification indeed. And even when the wind kicked up it wasn't a problem, if I drifted too far away, a quick burst of power would bring it right back over me. I think gliding is a good way to get to be a better driver just using controls without using power to do things. This may in part be because it climbed so fast I got in the habit of getting up high in a few seconds, then gliding back. And though I did not time them (next time I will), I was getting very long flight times. Still, I can just keep it at half throttle, and it just putts along, but silently, without the racket of the stock gearbox. I really think the new motor has significantly enhanced my enjoyment of the plane. I avoided several crashes today using this, especially once I got used to it. As long as the wings were near to level, I could simply go full throttle, the plane would pitch up and climb and in no time be 20 or 30 feet high. Second, on several occasions I got pretty close to the ground. The cub with new motor had no trouble at all flying into the wind, whereas with stock motor + lipo, it would have been struggling to make any headway in similar wind. At the end of the day, the wind started kicking up, pulling the ribbon out to about 15 degrees down from horizontal, so I'm guessing 15 mph. It also solves both problems I bought the larger motor for. I can reach pretty high altitudes in no time at all. If I keep the wings level so it doesn't bank, it will stay in this climb indefinately. On full throttle, it pitches its nose up about 45 degrees and just takes off. The new power is most evident in climbing ability. I would say the difference is about the same as going from the stock motor/battery to the stock motor with a lipo. I went through 4 packs today.Ĭlearly, the motor is much more powerful than the stock motor with a lipo. Now I am using the 32 amp Power Up ESC I bought with the motor from Heads Up RC. I've now had a couple nice long flight days with the new motor, one with the first ESC 25a, which appears to have been damaged, even though my Emeter says the max amps I was drawing was 15. I ground a corner off the two top nuts in the back to clear the housing. These were selected to put the propeller position in the same place as the stock setup. The aluminum spacers are 3/4" long, with 4-40 cap screws. The motor is this one:Īnd I am using the X motor mount and the prop mount shown there. The entire assembly is 16 grams lighter than the stock assembly (the third pic shows the two systems as weighed side by side). This made the mount weaker and prevented these two bolts from holding the housing and yellow mount plate together as with Chucks, so I CA'd the mount plate to the housing. I'm using a larger diameter motor and thus a larger X mount, and the bottom mount bolts were more widely spaced and intersected the walls of the mount, so I cut that area of wall away. Two sheets of 1/16 basswood were CA'd together with grain at right angles, and painted yellow with artist's acrylic and brush, to form a mounting plate for spacers, X-mount, and motor. A Dremel was used to remove the shaft housing and motor mounting sections. The stock black motor/gearbox housing was used as a base, to retain correct thrust angle. This is modeled after Chuck's (NoFlyZone) mod here: Here is the brushless motor and mount for my Super Cub brushless upgrade.
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