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[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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Beautiful! Early Piper Cub?

[Robert Moore]

"Alan Erskine" wrote
> Beautiful! Early Piper Cub?

Not really....but they were both designed by C.G. Taylor. This one is
the Taylorcraft BC-12. Taylor designed the Taylorcraft after his
association with W.T.Piper and the E-2 "CUB".

The following from Wikipedia:

The designer, Clarence Taylor, a self-taught aeronautical engineer from
Nottingham, England, can be called the father of private aviation in
America, as he designed the original Taylor Cub in 1931. Taylor, along
with his brother Gordon, formed Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation -
slogan; "Buy Your Airplane Taylor Made" - in Rochester, New York in
1926, offering a two-seat high-winged monoplane called the "Chummy",
priced at $4,000. The Chummy failed to sell however and after Gordon was
killed flying another Taylor design in 1928, Clarence moved to Bradford,
Pennsylvania, where the townsfolk had offered him a new factory at the
local airfield plus $50,000 to invest in the company. One of the
investors was William Thomas Piper, who had made his money from oil
wells.[1] Taylor shared with Piper a dream of making airplanes as common
as cars for Americans. After continuing with the Chummy for a while
Taylor abandoned the design and began work on a new inexpensive and
easy-to-build aircraft to compete with the heavier craft which were
common at the time. The classic battle between engineer and businessman
quickly caused a rift between the two. Piper took advantage of Taylor's
absence during an illness, and instructed Taylor's junior engineer
Walter Jamouneau to modify the Cub to be more attractive and marketable.
[citation needed] Taylor returned from his illness and raised the roof
in anger[citation needed] and left the company.



The Taylor E-2 Cub first appeared in 1930, built by Taylor Aircraft in
Bradford, Pennsylvania. Sponsored by William T. Piper, a Bradford
industrialist who had invested in the company, the E-2 was meant to be
an affordable aircraft that would encourage interest in aviation. Later
in 1930, the company went bankrupt, with Piper buying the assets but
keeping founder C. Gilbert Taylor on as president. In 1936, an earlier
Cub was altered by employee Walter Jamouneau to become the J-2 while
Taylor was on sick leave. (The coincidence led some to believe that the
"J" stood for Jamonoueau, while aviation historian Peter Bowers
concluded that the letter simply followed the E, F, G, and H models,
with the I omitted because it could be mistaken for the numeral one.)[2]
[3]. When he saw the redesign, Taylor was so incensed that he fired
Jamouneau. Piper, however, had encouraged Jamouneau's changes, and hired
him back. Piper then bought Taylor's share in the company, paying him US
$250 per month for three years.

[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

"Robert Moore" > wrote in message
5.250...
> "Alan Erskine" wrote
>> Beautiful! Early Piper Cub?
>
> Not really....but they were both designed by C.G. Taylor. This one is
> the Taylorcraft BC-12. Taylor designed the Taylorcraft after his
> association with W.T.Piper and the E-2 "CUB".
>
> The following from Wikipedia:

Thanks for the information; certainly explains the family resemblance.
Beautiful aircraft.