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...your plane Saturday and fly to your Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming...
...disconcerting." Cheap to Operate? The Civil Aero nautics Administration joined in the de bunking. In its latest survey on civil aviation it said: more than half of the plane owners who gave up their planes did so because of the high operating costs. A light plane such as the Taylorcraft would probably cost from $920 to $1,610 a year...
...Twosome. In the race to reconvert, short, balding Nash Russ, president of Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., had delivered his first civilian plane just two weeks after V-J day. Taylorcraft's Alliance, Ohio plant is now turning out 15 a day of its single model, the Twosome ($2,295), hopes to boost production to 50 a day by year's end. By then, Mr. Russ also hopes to be in production of a new model, a four-place, 127-m.p.h. plane. Price...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...
Flying 50 or 60 horse power Cubs or Taylorcraft, students in the primary course have begun training in half-hour intervals. After the solo, which is usually permitted after eight hours of dual instruction, students will fly in three-quarter hour periods for the next three hours, when they will begin to fly for an hour at a time until the course is completed...