PIPER CUB The Passionate Aircraft

Format: 17x24
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
Year of publication: 2016
Reference: 1551
I.S.B.N.: 9782364935518
Language: French

The Piper Cub is still a symbol of the ideal school and pleasure plane. For the average person, the name "Cub" has long been part of everyday language, and for the uninitiated means "club plane". And don't we often hear the name Piper "Club" mentioned?

Born of the fertile imagination of a self-taught engineer, in the midst of the great American economic crisis of 1929, this aircraft made its mark in a world that was thinking of something quite different from light leisure aviation. This book tells the story of the men who designed, built and flew it, in particular Clarence Gilbert Taylor and William Thomas Piper. From its conception to its descendants, via the dark hours of the Second World War, this is a comprehensive look at the aircraft and its derivatives. Illustrated with numerous photographs and three-view plans, this book also meets the expectations of model makers.

An aerospace industry technician, aviation journalist and Piper Cub pilot, André Bréand's comprehensive and detailed study of the Cub, its ancestors and derivatives is the first historical work in French.