PLANE FACTS: The business of flight was such big news in Bradford that The Era at one time had a section dedicated to sharing tidbits of the industry, like this one that appeared in the Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1930, edition under the headline “Airlooms and Plane Facts”:
Walter Muth, Buffalo, N.Y., pilot, came to Bradford yesterday and took the Taylor Cub for a trial spin. He carried as a passenger his friend Dick Bisett of this city.
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Jack Keller of Bradford, an ex-army flier who has not handled a stick since 1918 went up in the Cub, flew it around and landed perfectly. He praised the ship highly.
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The Taylor Cub, piloted by Bud Havens, left Bradford yesterday afternoon at 2:30 for Elmira, N.Y., where Neil Crowther, nationally known aviation writer, was waiting for a demonstration. Crowther is a special writer on the National Glider magazine force and was in Elmira attending the National Soaring contests. Several prominent airmen stayed over in Elmira to see the plane.
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After leaving Elmira, the Cub will continue through various New York state cities on a demonstration tour, Roosevelt field in New York being the final point.
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Morris Gaffney, Bradford resident, took his private pilot’s test yesterday and was given an official O.K. Gaffney purchased the first Taylor Chummy and has been learning to fly during the Summer.
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Before the Cub left for Elmira it was flown and examined by a number of out-of-town pilots. Two Buffalo airmen, two from Silver Creek and others from Warren, Pittsburgh, Olean, Franklin, and Cuba were here to try the plane.
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Kenneth Tibbitts, an employe at the Taylor plant, took his student test Saturday morning and within half an hour after taking his first lesson brought the Cub down and landed it for a perfect three pointer.
