PIPER CUB, L'AVION PASSION 2è édition

As a passion aircraft, the Piper Cub still symbolizes the ideal training and pleasure flying aircraft. The name "Cub" has long been part of everyday language and for the uninitiated it means "club plane". Don't we often hear the name Piper "Club" being pronounced? Born from the fertile imagination of a self-taught engineer, in the midst of the great American economic crisis of 1929, this plane was able to make its mark in a world that thought about something other than light recreational aviation. This book retraces the history of the men who designed, built and flew it, in particular Clarence Gilbert Taylor and William Thomas Piper. From its conception to its descendants, passing through the dark hours of the Second World War, a complete look is taken at this aircraft and its derivatives. Illustrated with numerous photographs and three-dimensional plans, this book also meets the expectations of model-makers. An aerospace industry technician, aeronautical journalist and Piper Cub pilot, André Bréand offers with this complete and detailed study the first historical work in French on the Cub, its ancestors and its derivatives.