Paper Cub

This is the 'Eve" of Horn Point, one of my favorite fly-ins. The weather may or may not be OK tomorrow. I'll be taking my M-10 Cadet over there. My plane is rare, (only 59 made) but it is nothing compared to the Antiques that we'll see. My Cher OH kee may come over also, flown by a friend, but it will be parked with the "modern" planes, even though it is 39 years old. We'll see Champs and Cubs and Wacos and Stinsons etc. Cubs. Piper Cubs. A Piper Cub. When I was a kid in grade school the words Piper Cub meant "small airplane". Nobody said "light airplane". They said Piper Cub. "Hey my dad's friend has an airplane. It's a Piper Cub". "Neat, what kind?" "A Cessna". It seems among pilots of all generations, just about everybody has a Cub on their short-list of what they'd like to own or rent or just fly around. Add me to that list of pilots. If your favorite plane is a Bonanza, your second favorite might be a Cub. The guys who "first soloed" in Cubs are getting scarce. That was before my time, but in a next generation kind of way I got to give some guys their first solo in a J-3. My first "first solo" student when I was working as a CFI was in a Cub. Sometimes my favorite plane ever is a J-3. I can't help it. I can't keep up with new planes and new regs and new radios and new airspace, and GPS's, and RVSM, and ETOPS, TCAS, Light Sport, Cirrus, etc. I do know everything about Gen. Av., but only the Middle Ages. Now when you say Cub, what the hell are you talking about? The J-3 comes to mind. What are all the other Cubs? The Cubby. the Legend, Husky, PA-18, Super Cub, J-2, J-5, Taylor Cub , Cruiser Etc. Now you go to a company and they build you a Cub. So we each have our dream Cub we would have built for us. Some guys want a monster Super Cub with 200 HP. That's cool, but if I wanted a bush plane, I would want something else besides a Cub. Some guys want an original J-3 that looks like it came out of Lock Haven yesterday and was ferried to them by Mr. Bill Piper. Some guys want an old one with a tail skid or a three cylinder engine or both. I could like that. I'll tell you mine. Mine is the best. I want a J-3. Like original, but all new. Polished wooden floorboards. Wooden prop. 100 horse. Antique repro. guages but not the white face ones. No little bear cubs on the guages or anywhere else. Cub yellow. No. Cream white with silver and black trim. Good state of the art comfortable seats, but they can pass for looking original. A hidden permanent electrical system with alternator, starter, comm radio, xpnder, mode C, hard-wired GPS, and hard- wired intercom. A set of Skis for later. Metal spars. Aux tank. Yea, dream LloydLou. Did I miss anything? What's your Cub like? G.A. Informal