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Spent the day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum today. As expected it holds a huge amount of history and it is really inspiring to view the actual (fill in the blank) that made aviation and world history.
In the area when they were talking about the development of small civil aviation aircraft they stated that C. Gilbert Taylor had designed the E-2 Cub and that William Piper bought out Taylor. That was just about the extent of anything on Taylorcraft. They mentioned in another display that William Piper was considered to be the father of the J-3 Cub. Actually that is probably a true statement as many do consider him to be the father of the cub.
Anyway, I guess I was a bit disappointed in the fact that not one mention of "Taylorcraft" was made. Aeronca, Cessna, Piper sure, but there were some other aircraft mentioned that I had never even heard of, let alone seen any still in flying condition.
Oh well, Taylorcraft remains the ugly stepsister. Besides that it was a great experience. Sure was hard to have an appetite when it was lunch time though after paying the prices for food. Pretty good racket when they won't let you bring food or drink in with you and have a corner on the market
We bought three meals and split it among the five of us to survive until we exited the city.
There was one very long line and I thought it was to see the Wright Flyer, nope! They had a Wizard of Oz display and people wanted to see the ruby slippers! I discovered that since the American History Museum is closed for renovating they have a few displays set up in other venues.
DC as a whole is a pain in the neck to get around in, expensive for everything, and not that great of a neighborhood... However, there is nothing like standing at the foot of the Capitol steps and wondering if my tax dollars are being spent wisely up there?
In the area when they were talking about the development of small civil aviation aircraft they stated that C. Gilbert Taylor had designed the E-2 Cub and that William Piper bought out Taylor. That was just about the extent of anything on Taylorcraft. They mentioned in another display that William Piper was considered to be the father of the J-3 Cub. Actually that is probably a true statement as many do consider him to be the father of the cub.
Anyway, I guess I was a bit disappointed in the fact that not one mention of "Taylorcraft" was made. Aeronca, Cessna, Piper sure, but there were some other aircraft mentioned that I had never even heard of, let alone seen any still in flying condition.
Oh well, Taylorcraft remains the ugly stepsister. Besides that it was a great experience. Sure was hard to have an appetite when it was lunch time though after paying the prices for food. Pretty good racket when they won't let you bring food or drink in with you and have a corner on the market
We bought three meals and split it among the five of us to survive until we exited the city.There was one very long line and I thought it was to see the Wright Flyer, nope! They had a Wizard of Oz display and people wanted to see the ruby slippers! I discovered that since the American History Museum is closed for renovating they have a few displays set up in other venues.
DC as a whole is a pain in the neck to get around in, expensive for everything, and not that great of a neighborhood... However, there is nothing like standing at the foot of the Capitol steps and wondering if my tax dollars are being spent wisely up there?
Just got back on floats...finally!
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