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

[Note Feb 2011] As some of you have probably guessed, this project has stalled due to commitments to the Saxon Microlights business.

We hope to be able to report more progress later this year.

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 has built a new microlight aircraft from a kit.

Follow his progress [here].

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