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Hi All.
Finally made a trip to Lock-Haven, Pennsylvania to visit the Piper Aircraft museum and I'd like to share some pics.
The museum is located at the old Piper facilities where the aircraft were manufactured from 1930's - 1980's. If [...]
The Airplane:
In 1929 engineer Clarence Gilbert Taylor created a light tourism plane which was economical to operate. The first flight of the prototype took place in September 1930 and the aircraft was baptized “Taylor E2 [...]
I don't even know what to say about this model. The idea of a crop duster in action came up to my head, thought about it for few weeks, finally found some time to isolate myself from the world and make it happen.
I have been following my project to restore or even to build vintage models which bring back good memories, so now I went to this 1957 original Monogram kit, the civilian beauty Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer .
I took my first flight in a [...]
I bring you a recently completed model that took neither much time, nor much effort, but which has produced a cool little airplane.
To begin, I bought this kit after seeing one in person at an airshow last month. The airshow (or fly-in) [...]
Memories of the J-3 Cub.
There was a time during my childhood the name “Piper Cub” was pretty much synonymous with the word “airplane.” In those days, a young boy might see a C-124 passing overhead whereupon he would exclaim, [...]
This is a scene from my past, the "dope and fabricating" shop. As shop mechanics "dope" (paint) the Super Cub's control surfaces, an old guy, maybe the shop super, sits in a chair, reviewing how it used to be [...]