Recent content by Cub58H

Flyboy - Once you have flown the Supercub it will be hard to get excited about many other general aviation airplanes! Of course you will fly everything else much better afterwards! We own a J-3 with 75 hp and at 690 lbs empty it performs pretty well. My wife and I flew it out here from...

Twoeagles...one of the reasons I wanted to get on this forum is to find out a little more about one of the units that my dad was in - the Carrier Aircraft Service Units. I have a photo of him and several others, both Off and Enlisted in front of an F4U, and I believe it was at NAS Norfolk (as...

Hi folks, George Coleman here. I am interested in aviation of all sorts, but particularly Naval floatplanes. The connection is that my dad was an aviation mechanic in the Navy during WWII. He was on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41) from January 1941 when she was at Pearl, until sometime around...