Besides my Whitetail Quest website, this is my hobby in my 2 car attached garage .
For anyone interested in flying, here is a
very economical way to do so.
The Ultralight flier envies the Cessna flier.
The Cessna flier envies the twin engine Beachcraft flier and etc. all
the way to the jumbo jet pilot...
Whoever sees the Ultralight pilot and envies him
thinks.......
"Now that's flying"
This is the second Ultralight that I built and sold. |
I have "ALL" the
material to build another one from plans sold by the company listed below.
I ordered all the welded and bent tubing from them along with the front
fiberglass cowling.Scratch building yourself an airplane is an
exciting and rewarding project, especially when the time comes to take that
first flight! There's just nothing like taking off for the first time,
climbing above the fields and trees, in a plane that you crafted with your own
hands. The time spent pouring over the plans and fashioning the many parts,
seems a small price to pay for such a thrill!
Tiger Cub Ultralight
The Tiger Cub UL
can be scratch built from plans making it very economical to build!
The airframe is built of aluminum tubing with aluminum gussets and brackets at
the joints, fastened together with bolts and rivets.
Johnston Aviation can provide you with a very detailed set of plans
that will guide you, step by step through the process, in a logical and
progressive order, from ordering the materials ( down to the last bolt and
washer), to going through the preflight check list, in preparation for your
first flight!
A technical assistance line is maintained to answer any questions that may
come up during construction.
The plans include a complete materials and vender list.
The material list gives a list of the sizes and amounts of all the aluminum
and chrome molly tube and sheet needed to build the airframe, a list of all
the An hardware sizes and quantities needed and a list of all the rest of the
materials needed to complete the airplane, with descriptions and venders part
numbers for hard to find or describe parts.
The vender list is a listing of all the venders that we buy materials from and
what materials they carry. All the materials needed to build a Tiger Cub UL
(less engine prop and instruments) can be purchased from these venders for
under $4500.00 as of 1/07.
The plans have full size prints of all the gussets
The gusset prints are organized by thickness from .025 to .125 the patterns
can be cut out and traced onto the aluminum sheet with a fine tipped marker.
No scaling from the plans required! directions and tips for cutting out the
gussets are included in part one of the assembly manual.
Full size prints, of the chromemoly and machined parts, are included.
If you don't weld or have access to machines these prints can be taken to a
local fabricating shop or machine shop, or they can be purchased ready made
from us.
¼ scale prints (19" by 30" prints) of the wings, tail surfaces, fuselage and
bulkhead panels. The panel prints have all the measurements needed to lay out
the part on your work table, so you don't have to scale your measurements from
the prints, eliminating a common source of errors.
The plans also include an assembly manual (over 200 - 11" by 17" ) pages of
pictures and text), that gives step by step directions and tips to guide you
through assembly, rigging, covering, wiring, plumbing and finishing.
Available since Jan. of 2000, over 300 sets of plans have been shipped (as of
1/2007) and Tiger Cub UL's are going together all over the world.
Est. build time for scratch built...650 hrs.
Price for a complete set of plans $250.00, Too order send check or money order
to,
Johnston Aviation
407 Morganza rd.
Canonsburg, Pa. 15317
724 745 4040
To make the building process faster Johnston Aviation also
offers:
Parts packages
These parts packages have been put together to aid the scratch builder who
doesn't have the time, skills, or the equipment to make all the various parts
needed to scratch build an airplane. Prints and patterns are included in the
plans to make all of these parts for those who do.
Chrome moly weldment package.
The package supply's all of the welded parts needed to build a Tiger Cub UL
from the firewall back.
Chrome moly weldment package... $760.00
Machined parts package.
Supplies all of the machined parts needed.
Machined Parts Package... $395.00
Rib Kit package.
Supplies all the rib bows prebent, all the widgets, preformed and the wooden
disks needed to build the ribs.
Rib Kit package... 9 ribs per wing... $462.00
Bent tube package.
Supplies the 1" & 3/4" dia. bent tubes, 1 joy stick, 2 wing tip bows, 2 rear
cabin down tubes,2 stab leading edge tubes, 2 seat bows, 1 throttle quadrant
arm rest bow and top & bottom motor mount bends.
Bent tube package... $320.00
Landing gear leg Package.
This package includes the 2 fiberglass main gear legs and the fiberglass tail
wheel spring rod.
Landing gear leg Package... $96.00
Rivet Package.
This package includes the high tensile aluminum rivets needed to complete a
Tiger Cub UL.
Rivet Package... $355.00
Misc. Parts Package.
This package consists of various items that are difficult to find or to order
in small quantities, I. E. 1.5" aluminum piano hinge, .375" by .25" forged
bronze bushings, 3" by .25" by 4 ft UHMW polyethylene stock, 1- stainless tail
post hinge, flaperon return springs, etc. Misc. Parts Package... $106.00
Fiberglass Cowl Bowl package.
This package includes the fiberglass nose bowl layered up with the aluminum
mounting ring installed and the cowl mount brackets riveted in place, ready to
fit and install on the motor mounts. No jell coat is used in the lay up to
keep weight to a minimum. The lay-up is as it comes from the mold, filling of
small air pockets and mold ridges may be necessary.
Fiberglass Cowl Bowl... $480.00
Visit the Tiger Cub website for more great offers from
Johnston Aviation including a two place Airplane.
Click here for Plans, Kits or complete Airplanes.
Tiger Cub Ultralight Airplane
Click here for pictures of several builders
building their Tiger Cub Airplanes
My Tiger Cub
I begin building my Tiger cub in June 2007
Upgrades to my Tiger Cub
are as follows
1- Chrome molly 4130 tail post and in the lower section of the rudder
2- Larger
5/16"
diameter
tubing on the trailing edge of the tail section and flapperon's
3- Diagonal bracing on the flapperon control arm
4- 7/8” 0.58 insert inside the flapperon control
arm cross shaft.
5- A 1” 0.58 tube between the rear landing U brackets with a 1” X 4” 0.58
strap on each side and longer bolts to accommodate (3 rivets per plate)
6- Felt on leading edge of each wing with nine 1/2” dia.
tube ribs per wing, 1.7 oz. cloth riveted every 6” top and bottom, Velcro gap
seal glued on, 5 inspection rings and 2 drain grommets per wing.
7-
Cross braces on the over
head cabin bows to the front header tube.
From where the rear of the windshield attaches.
8- Streamlined struts and jury struts (Chrome molly 4130 jury struts brackets
were installed after bottom cloth was attached and shrunk)
9- Galvanized firewall with high temp foam rubber sound barrier glued on
inside cockpit.
10- Avid disc brakes with heal pedals
11- 800 x 6 tundra tires on 6”
Azusa aluminum rims machined for 3/4"X 1-
5/8” precision seal bearings
12- Cotter pin installed in stub end of axles as a safety precaution of loose
locking collar
13- Chrome molly 4130 streamlined Landing gear cross brace.
14- Fan cooled Rotax 503 with single Bing 54/36 carb,
Dual Ducati ignition, BR8EIX spark plugs (with holes drilled into
cooling shroud to install ties around wire ends to prevent plug wires from
falling off), provision 8 - 2.58 to 1 B gear box, EGT threaded exhaust
manifold, standard muffler with silencer, 62” ground adjustable GSC tech 2
prop with leading edge tape, 8” scull cap prop spinner and a Rotax electric
starter.
15- Instrument panel is mounted on 6 rubber standoffs with the following
instruments installed - EGT, CHT, Tachometer, Vertical speed indicator, Air
speed indicator, Bank and slip indicator, Fuel pressure gauge, Vertical card
compass, Vacuum gauge, Attitude Gyro (with regulator, filter and exterior
mounted Venturi),
Vanier throttle control, plunger fuel primmer, electric fuel pump in
series with Mikuni fuel pump, fuel filter and shutoff valve, 5 gallon fuel
tank, voltage regulator, keyed ignition magneto
test switch, push button Starter switch, Potter Brumfield aircraft circuit
breakers on all electrical circuits and pull to unlock aircraft type
electrical toggle switches.
16- 2 hinges in the lower engine cover (1 on each side of the exhaust)
17- both right and left windows that will be able to open or can be removed
I found the covering process
to be the simplest thing to do on my Tiger cub after watching the DVD’s from
http://www.stewartsystems.aero/
I bought all my covering products from them at a very good price.
And used it all without any special breathing apparatus
right in my living room.
They do not have their DVD’s on the web site yet but you can get them by
calling #1-888-EKO-POLY
One construction tip is to
use a 3 or 4” long piece of 1/8X1/2x1/2” angle with a 1/8” hole drilled in the V
1/8” from the end as a drill guide to center drill your tubing.
I upgraded to a 503 because I
found one at a reasonably price.
When I make to new engine mount I may try to move it back 2 or 3 inches or as
much as the muffler will allow without overheating the firewall.
I am thinking about putting on a thin heat shield between as a safety measure.
Quotes I live by
Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag
you down to his level and beat you with
experience.
Either, Lead - Follow; or get the hell out of
my way.
Being on the tightrope is living; Everything else is waiting.
Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Being an egotistical a--hole, I DO IT MY WAY
(after I get my wife's permission).
(Written by Wayne Pederson.
If it fits you can quote me)
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS
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