Project Tiger Cub Story

The Continuing Saga Of Acquiring And

Rebuilding A Classic Microlight

It all started with an ad in AFORS, “own a bit of microlighting history” it said , “Rotec Rally complete, and a Tiger Cub partly restored without engine”.

… a Tiger Cub!

Follow these links to read the story:

Part 1 – First buy your pile of junk.

Part 2 – Solving the jigsaw puzzle

Part 3 - Searching for the missing pieces

Part 4 - Dirt under the fingernails (at last)

Part 5 - Getting under the skin and having some ideas

Part 6 - Dreaming up some improvements

Part 7 - Bent and cracked metalwork

Part 8 - Making and fitting some new bits

Part 9 - A surprise gift and a little bit of history

Part 10 - Paper, paper! and a little bit of wood

Part 11 - Progress at last, fitting the fuel tank

Part 11b - and a surprise visitation

Part 12 - Some work in the cockpit

Part 13 - Rivets

Part 13a - The power of internet

Part 13b - Thinking about legs

Part 14 - Wheels and a bit of a SPLASH

Part 15 - Another wheel and mending a hole

Thinking of buying an old Microlight?

Ginge has often been asked to advise about what

to look for when buying a second-hand microlight. To

make life easier, he wrote it all down [here]

Ginge’s Hints and Tips

Ginge has learnt a lot about repairing and maintaining

engines and microlights over the years. So you can share

in this, he’s started a weekly hints and tips page [here]

A friend of ours is building a new microlight aircraft from a kit.

Follow his progress [here].

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