A Little Yellow Cub Bound for Texas
‘Electrics' for the radios means she needs a wind generator straddled between her pretty little legs.The best job for that will be the BPE-14 Turbo Alternator built by Basic Aircraft Products, Inc., Georgia 30809. My last one served me very well, even soaked in oil from the leaking engine between London and Australia in the 2001 Air Race.
Better brakes than the ‘make believe' of the 40s are also needed. That must be another set from Grove Brakes of El Cajon, California 92020 who kindly gifted a set for Liberty Girl last year.
More instruments are urgently needed for high altitude and crossing of the Andes range of mountains for Brazil.
A new life raft for crossing both the Panama Canal and South Atlantic, later, is urgently needed.
Improvement on the range for this J3 Piper Cub is urgently needed before I reach Mexico. Wing tank conversion....Super Cub mod?
Now just who, en route, can help?
I set off on the16th April from Mid Florida ‘low and slow'.
Please telephone US cell 3863415607
About Maurice Kirk
Maurice was born 12th March1945, a war baby, in Taunton, Somerset, West of England, within a final family of four brothers and one sister while mother and father were working 24/7 to run a country veterinary practice. Country pursuits very much dominated his spare time from most sports with his passion still for hunting , shooting and fishing!
Maurice is currently trying to fly to South Africa in his WW2 Piper Cub,registration G-KURK. His other D-Day Cub, G-KERK, is destined, on skis, for a rather taller mountain after his promise to Sir Edmond, six years ago. Meanwhile, the task of obtaining justice in the UK courts, in order to practice veterinary surgery, is proving to be somewhat elusive.Authority has quite another agenda.