Thanks also to Dee Messina, Mike Estock, Ed Moore, Karl Kuehlmuss, and Gene Gifford for helping to set up the canopy and boundry lines for our exhibit. If you can't go flying tomorrow, the weather will be perfect. Like milk, every airplane has an expiration date. Some are sooner than others. To calculate the location of the exact rear center underneath your workbench, just drop a screw.
Trees are always closer than they appear.
Cub First built in 1938, the Piper J-3 earned its fame as a trainer. N.Y. Onetime barnstormers, the brothers had designed and were attempting to market a two-seat monoplane called the Chummy, when Gorden Taylor was killed in a crash. Gilbert Taylor, who believed there would be a growing market for light planes, moved in 1929 to Bradford, Pa., where community leaders were anxious to promote new local industries. One of the stockholders was an oilman named William T. Piper. Testing had revealed the engine, which was rated at 20 hp, had too little power for the E-2.