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Uploaded by on Feb 10, 2011

It's been REALLY busy hereabouts lately, as the ANN HQ crew seems to find more and more things to do at a time when most folks would think we could take it easy for a while. Yeah... not a chance. Still, there's busy... and there's BUSY. And when busy means spending a day with the Carbon Cub, life ain't all that bad.

This bird has gotten quite a buzz... as the folks at CubCrafters went gonzo in creating the ultimate Mongo-Cub for those folks that simply aren't happy with what everyone else is flying. The Carbon Cub SS maxes out the abilities of the Cub thanks to extensive re-engineering that resulted in a parts count that declined by 50 percent and also slashed 250 pounds from the empty weight (against a similarly equipped Super Cub).

Add that to additional design augmentations that included boosting the horsepower to a lofty 180 horsepower (giving the beast a solid power to weight ratio of 7.33 lbs/hp and you get a honking 2100 fpm, along with some great handling... offered up by some very dedicated aerodynamic refinements that have turned this thing into a flying work of art. At the end of our photo mission, the truly foolish folks of SWT Aviation (who owned this particular bird) tossed the keys to ANN;'s Jim Campbell... who promptly hauled off KSGJ's Rwy 02 in just under 400 feet (not wanting to show off) and heading aloft at over 2000 fpm... and all this occurred AFTER he'd had lunch. Yup... color us impressed. So... enjoy our music video tour of a very cool day ion the life of a Carbon Cub SS and go ahead and tell us that you don't want to fly this thing REALLY bad.

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  • Nice Cub. Next time tell the pilot not to look at the camera the whole time. Better footage if acts like the camera is not there. Then the footage can be used better for stock use.

  • @photobart1 In a tight formation, he better be looking at the camera (Plane) the whole time... GOOD air-to-air is not the easiest thing to do... and keeping it safe requires keen attention to where the other aircraft in the formation are, at all times... especially in this case -- where the Carbon Cub was flying the Aggressor role.

  • @photobart1 I guess you are right but he can cheat his head a little more straight but still look at the camera plane with his eyes. If you see fighter pilots filmed a lot of the times you will see there heads are looking forward as if the camera was not there. But they there shields are dark and I bet they are looking at the camera plane out of the corner of their eyes too.

  • @photobart1 The shots where you see the pilots NOT looking at the camera ship are cases in which the camera ship is the aggressor and has the primary responsibility for maintaining seperation. In this case, the Carbon Cub was the aggressor and had to keep his eyes on us all the time.

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  • Nicely put together Nathan!

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  • I love this aircraft because it was the first that drove in the Field of Afonsos RJ

    Comte Guilherme Raymundo

    San Pablo -Brazil

  • Really good video. Loved it. Really amazing flying, and the Carbon Cub SS is absolutely spectacular to say the least. The performance is just insane, and I love the look of it too-unmistakable Cub but with noticably modern features. I would really love this plane, I could actually fly it out of my back yard with the performance...

  • @photobart1 He's looking at the chase plane in order to keep spacing and avoid a collision.

  • I love this video and love this plane ! :)

  • It's to bad that little thing cost so much.. : /

  • @jabp03 agreed I would have liked him to land and stop in 30 ft. The high speed pass was kind of anti-climatic

  • Cub + Power + Speed = Doesent go together haha

  • I was expecting a short landing not a "high speed" pass! :)

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