2-33 Wanted

Bruce - My point may have been too subtle. Cruise speed and climb of a C65 J3 Cub (I owned a '41 for many years) is not even close to a 150 or a Tomahawk.

My point: The 2-33 is the Cub of gliding. But it never gets the respect that the Cub gets (and it should).

ROY

On 7/27/2016 3:45 PM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
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...Can you even imagine a high profile extreme sports
sponsor using the 2-33 for an aerobatic display team? I thought not.

Hey, in the airshow business, "different" equates directly to "memorable" and
"bookable." The problem may be not on the sponsor side, but the creation side.

I think it would be a major hoot to see (say) 2-33's performing roped-together
wingtip-to-wingtip aerobatics. Memorable for all? Dambetcha!!! (Born after
WW-II, I missed seeing such pre-WW-II bipe fighter exhibitions. Remember
Claire Chennault?)

"Anybody" can fly high-power aerobatics or energy-retaining, clean-sailplane
aerobatics. It takes real skill and manly men to fly aerobatics in J-3 Cubs
and draggy sailplanes.

I'll get started removing the 2-33's lawyer-inspired aerobatic restrictions
first thing tomorrow!!!

Bob W.

J3 Cub - so safe that it cab just /barely/ kill you. And what fun to fly!

:-D

On 7/27/2016 12:35 PM, Roy B. wrote:
Jim:
Hope you find a nice one. Try the guys at K&L Soaring in Elmira.

Kid goes up to his power pilot father and says, "Dad, I'd like to learn to fly in a J3 Cub". Father says, "That's great, perfect plane to learn on, rugged honest, an great foundation to build on"

Kid goes up to his glider pilot father and says. "Dad I'd like to learn to fly in a 2-33." Father says, "God no!, 60 year old technology! Logy, ugly, and no performance - anything but a 2-33"

I just can't figure it out. Never have. Never will.

Roy (+3000 hours CFIG, +65,000 XC kms, soloed on a 2-22)


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Dan, 5J

"Can you even imagine a high profile extreme sports sponsor using the 2-33 for an aerobatic display team? I thought not."

I can't. Just like I can't imagine a NASCAR driver borrowing my '99 Ford Ranger to drive in the truck series...but it got me back and forth to gliderport to fly a 2-33 just fine.