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Saturday in Central Florida - 06FD and FD04 on 10/18/08 - DSC_4742m.jpg
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Saturday in Central Florida - 06FD and FD04 on 10/18/08 - DSC_4742m.jpg
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... Beautiful! Early Piper Cub? |
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Saturday in Central Florida - 06FD and FD04 on 10/18/08 - DSC_4742m.jpg
"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. |
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Saturday in Central Florida - 06FD and FD04 on 10/18/08 - DSC_4742m.jpg
"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. |
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