CubCrafters NXCub: World’s Best Flying Ugly Airplane

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Key Takeaways:

  • CubCrafters has released the NXCub, a new nosewheel version of its sophisticated XCub taildragger aircraft.
  • An AVweb review surprisingly suggests the NXCub, despite being a nosewheel design, could be a better backcountry airplane than its tailwheel predecessor.
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Five years ago, CubCrafters introduced the most sophisticated taildragger ever, the XCub. Now they’ve followed it up with a nosewheel version of the airplane called the NXCub and although AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli is a tailwheel kinda guy, in this detailed video review he explains the not-so-obvious reason why the NX could be a better backcountry airplane.

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