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It does look like the gear needs pulled in, but the plane either has two wingtip STCs and they used one for each wing, or for some other reason there is a huge Madras Deemer tip where the smaller Ferguson Plane Booster tip should be. It has the Ferguson STC because the wing has the extra rib instead of the spar being cut short like the Madras Deemer STC requires, so they probably banged a tip and could only find a Deemer tip to replace the Plane Booster.
what’s your point? I don’t get it. It needs bungees.
If we ever have Oshkosh or SnF again, take a look at the difference of the Madras and Plane Booster tips, the Madras is a large droop, an oval egg shaped from leading edge to trailing. The Plane Booster a lot less droop, strait back from leading to trailing edge, no oval shape, much less droop. Probably does not fly as well as it would with the correct part the STC calls for.
Plane boosters original tip was a little deeper droop. After Cub Crafters bought the STC they revised the tip shape to be not so much of a droop and then re-certified it only to the PA-18.
This airplane looks like they replaced a tip with one of the Cub crafters tips and left the other side with the original tip.
Plus, those bungee cords are junk, replace them
Before one breaks..
Plane boosters original tip was a little deeper droop. After Cub Crafters bought the STC they revised the tip shape to be not so much of a droop and then re-certified it only to the PA-18.
This airplane looks like they replaced a tip with one of the Cub crafters tips and left the other side with the original tip.
Plus, those bungee cords are junk, replace them
Before one breaks..
Brian
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Once you get more time around them you will be able to tell the difference, a couple more examples, easy to tell the difference. Plane Booster tips have never had the oval droop down from the leading edge like Madras do, Booster tips go strait back no oval drop down in the front. Madras go down and than back, thats why people complane about not being able to see, they come down and block your view. The top pic Pacer with Booster tips, notice the rake, strait back to the droop trailing edge, no oval shaped droop down at the leading edge and than back like Madras in the second pic, just strait line right to the droop rear tip, and visibility is not blocked as much as Madras.
Plane Booster
Madras
Another Madras
And Plane Booster
A couple more
See how that line goes strait back and the leading edge of the droop tip is flush with the wing leading edge, thats Plane Booster