Three Nosewheel Equipped NX Cubs Explore the Idaho Backcountry
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2025
- CubCrafters now offers a nosewheel option for the company's flagship CC-19 XCub Aircraft, popularly called the NX Cub. In this video, Jim Richmond (CubCrafters founder) explores the Idaho backcountry in the late summer of 2020 with Ben Hodges and Mike Sasser, each flying one of the company's new nosewheel-equipped NX Cubs. Basing out of Morgan Ranch (02ID) and surrounded by the incredible Frank Church River Of No Return Wilderness Area, this video features these new aircraft in some of the most interesting and challenging terrain Idaho has to offer.
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This is exactly what we would plan to acquire instead of a 172 now, Thanks Cubcrafters :)
The better concept! I've been in love with this concept since inception...
Excellent video! You all have a great culture and it shows in this video. Poor guy and the look of shame for his airplane not starting in sync with the others (00:53).
Love the trike.
Love flying these guys in Microsoft flight simulator
The Carbon Cubs , they are great flying machines , fabulous video please keep them coming.
Beautiful time spending and weekend. Dream to be like your jorney
So each plane comes with a cool mountain cabin with a nice runway and some respectable looking friends? That's just the change I need...let's get down to brass tacks, how much?
Looking forward to buying one.
I'm Sold !! The NX Cub Club !! 😁😎 Only Club for Me ! LoL You Guys do any Tours ? Synchronized Stuff is Always a Hit ! EAA Air Venture has So Many Different Categories. One Contest is the Shortest Take Off & Landing. Thanks for the Video ( I'm always a little behind the Times ).You could Easily do Longer Videos ! 😁😁😎
Great
awesome 😊
Quite the life!
Amazing
Love this, any chance it will be IFR certified?
Yes, the NX Cub can be purchased as an IFR airplane and legally flown under instrument flight rules. The pathway for this is through our Builder Assist program, certified as an EAB, with IFR flight allowed in the aircraft's operating limits issued by the FAA. The current most popular IFR package based on Garmin's G3X system, with GNC-355 GPS Com, G5 backup Attitude, GTX-345R ADS-B in/out transponder, and a GMC 305 autopilot. Any of our regional dealers can offer more detailed information at cubcrafters.com/contact
There is no better plane in the world than the NX Cub, although I only fly it in MSFS 2022, I also think in the sim that the NX Cub is the best plane to fly around alone or in pairs and I have the most beautiful paint for it! Look at my videos, you will definitely find them from time to time !
That grease at the beginning though ☺️
Fantastic! Does this limit it’s capacity to land on rough terrain given the small nose wheel?
The trailing arm is very strong and allows a small tire to act like it has a larger radius. Sorry I couldn't find the actual load limit for the tire and bearings
Awesome. Nothing else to say.
1:00 The nosewheel configuration clearly doesn't sacrifice ground agility in a meaningful way! There would be circumstances where that freakishly tight turning circle that tailwheels offer would be useful, but if you've landed in a place that makes such maneuverability necessary to taxi without crashing, you probably shouldn't have landed there in the first place in my opinion. I really like this aircraft, would love to own one someday.
Nice but so expensive.
Retirement plan!
11/10/22 UnNatural looking or not I think that's the Only way to Fly !! Trike & RG. Tail Draggers are Such { I'm Not gonna say it LoL} an Antiquated and Unsafe 'On the Ground at least in My Point of [ Non View over the Nose ]. Less Stress on the Tail although Tail draggers have to be built extra Sturdy. I Just Like to see directly over the Nose so I don't run into anything. Wheel up front could be the same size of the Rears if I'm gonna be doing any Really Rough Terra Ferma. 😁😎
why would anyone choose a nose wheel for bush flying
See OP's reply below. 30% shorter takeoffs and 50% shorter landings. Driving tailwheel purists mad.
@@Hooknspktr allegedly
@@ottob.884 It's information directly from the manufacturer. The ones that make and test both versions extensively for certification under FAA scrutiny. Hardly an allegation.
@@Hooknspktr show me the data
@@ottob.884 go ask CubCrafters.
an awful lot of complaining because there's a nosewheel. Here's a thought: if you don't like it, there's a lot of other options you can look at that are tail draggers, don't debbie downer. This convertible is rad, and if it can give an earlier better AoA, awesome!
Seems more logical to have the nosewheel far forward & attached to the engine mount. Seems like less twist on the firewall.
Cub/Tripacer
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Love the look of the trike, but just so unnatural for a Cub.
Options are good but it just looks wrong....like a nose dragger maule
IDK of course I'm sure its quality. But there just seems something off about a cub inspired plane with a nose wheel. Especially a nose wheel that looks like that.
How to turn a cub into a Cessna.
Filming in a wilderness area for commercial purposes without a permit is illegal. Using a drone is also illegal.
Pretty much that’s what the British said right before we’d had enough of their shit...more rules!
@@foodog3026 we will lose access to these resources because of people who blatantly disregard FS rules .... the local pilots and users have fought the FS for years and it is people from out of state who abuse the resource that will get it shut down for everyone. The FS has no sense of humor.
That nose gear is *_Sacrilege._*
If they discontinued the tail wheel then I would agree .
@@semiprofessional8470 Off with your head! Philistine!
@@semiprofessional8470 Last night I moved a ChickenHawk Patrol & it had a tail wheel on it ('proper configuration, not your abomination of an 'airplane') and any-hoo, this tail wheel is new. It's solid & I'm sure expensive as fuck. AND the damn thing had a HUGE flat spot on it. It's like...Really? REALLY? The thing was full of fuel, but I literally couldn't budge the tail. I couldn't lift it, not a single millimeter. ...just a random story for ya...
This thing is well over $300,000 dollars and not worth the cost. Why on Earth would anybody buy one of these when there are more cost-effective aircraft out there that can do the exact same things...
Such as? Which tricycle gear bush planes are you talking about?
this should be illegal to do to a cub
anyone asking themself but why ? at 400k and a ulgy airplane that's a hard sell !
Shorter landing distance, easier to taxi, easy to convert from a nose dragger to a tail dagger and back so you can fly in both configurations, and a lot of power.
@@AN2Felllla if thats it why not buy a zenith do all that for 1/8th the cost ???? your theory doesnt really hold water a cub is a cub its not a tri pacer
Can someone remind me again what the advantage of a nose wheel is on a bush two seater??? I mean come on.. if you like trikes cos they are easier to fly and you don’t need the strength or increased utility of conventional gear, then a cub is not for you in the first place.
Yes, it's easier to fly, but it's also better performance, especially STOL performance. More AOA sooner for ~30% shorter takeoffs, and then more effective braking for as much as 50% shorter landings. As designed, it is just as strong as conventional gear, it meets the same structural criteria and passes the exact same certification tests as the tailwheel version of the aircraft. Perhaps not the romance of a tailwheel Cub, but a lot more utility for most missions and pilots.
Okay, a cub is not for me. You are right. But a trike is....why would you flirt with ground looping a light Carbon Cub at $400,000 and some change per copy? Fine aircraft, if you fly in dead calm.
have flown both all over the backcountry. The tailwheel is better.
@@skypilot3671 Really you've flown an NX-Cub all over the backcountry? I think not.
@@SJNazif Since you have no idea who I am that seems like an odd comment. I gave about 30 hours of dual instruction to two different pilots in the NX cubs in the backcountry, including off airport operations, and I have given about 100 hours of backcountry instruction to pilots with the TW version. The NX does well, but the TW performs better as it can achieve a higher AOA for takeoff and gets off shorter. How much instruction have you provided to pilots in these airplanes in backcountry environment?
This...this...THIS is sacrilege.