The History of the Piper Cub
...rothers Aircraft Company would carry on. The aircraft company would later start the production of a low-powered, two-seat aircraft. This aircraft would be called the Taylor E-3. “The E-2 featured a design with wings mounted high on the fuselage, an open cockpit, fabric-covered tubular steel fuselage and wooden wings.” On September 12, 1930 the E-2 was ready for a test flight. The 20 horsepower Brownbach engine that was not enough. The test flight ended quickly when the E-2 ran out of runway. The Brownbach engine was not powerful enough to lift the aircraft above 5 feet in the air. Shortly after that Taylor Brother’s Aircraft Company would go bankrupt. William T. Piper an oilman that was inspired about general aviation after the so-called “Lindbergh Boom” would buy the assets of the Taylor Aircraft Corporation for a The History of the Piper Cub 3 price of $761. After the corporation got back on its feet they brought out a new Taylor E-2, now called the “Cub”. In 1931 there were twenty-one Cubs sold at a price of $1,325. Later the E-2 would be changed to the J-2 because of the aircraft designer Walter Jamouneau, the “J” stand for Jamouneau. The next year Piper unveiled the J-3 Cub. The new and improved Cub was powered by a Continental 40 horsepower engine; it would later be increased to a 50 and then a 65 horsepower engine. “The two-seat J-3 Cub was only 22 feet 2 inches long, stood 80 inches high, and had a wingspan of 35 feet 2 inches. When powered by Lycoming 65 horsepower engine, the J-3 Cub...