Tricycle gear Cub?

Sure, it's called a Tri-Pacer or Colt.

I took my first lessons in a Colt and thought it a great little plane.
It's like the clipped-wing Cubs -- doesn't glide very well. And of
course you don't get the cute cylinders sticking out into the
airstream. Because of that, you can probably buy a 1950 Colt for less
money than a 1946 J-3.

(The Colt is actually descended from the Vagabond, which is sort of a
first cousin to the J-3 Cub.)

The U.S. Army had a tricycle version of the Super Cub, and no doubt
there were private-conversion trike J-3s as well.

Really, though, the tailwheel trickiness is part of the mystique of
the Piper Cub. If you converted a J-3, you would lower its resale
value, and the next owner very likely would convert it right back.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:12:35 GMT, "Ken Finney"
wrote:

My first dumb question for the day:

With all the renewed Cub interest due to LSA, I haven't see any available
with tricycle gear. Have I just missed them, or is there a fundamental
reason (e.g. low thrust line would make propeller too small) why no one is
making them?

P.S. If purists want to eviscerate me for using "Cub" and "tricycle" in the
same sentence, I'll consider myself eviscerated!



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