The Taylor Chummy , originally the Arrowing Chummy is a light utility aircraft made by the Taylor Aircraft Company in the late 1920s. It was the fore-runner of the highly successful Piper Cub series.
7-600: The Taylor Cub was originally designed by C. Gilbert Taylor as a small, light and simple utility aircraft, evolved from the Taylor Chummy . It is the forefather of the popular Piper J-3 Cub , and total production of the Cub series was 23,512 aircraft. In 1930 with C. G. Taylor as Chief Engineer, the Taylor Aircraft Company embarked on the production of a two-seat tandem low-powered aircraft, designated
14-403: A 1937 factory fire. Additionally, some earlier Chummy models were rebuilt into later models. On April 24, 1928, Gordon Taylor crashed a Chummy at Ford Airport , Dearborn, Michigan . His passenger, Aaron Rosenbleet, was killed instantly, and Taylor died of his injuries shortly after reaching hospital. Gilbert witnessed the crash. The crash was attributed to the passenger's hand "freezing" on
21-516: The Taylor Cub . The Cub featured a design with wings mounted high on the fuselage, an open cockpit, fabric-covered tubular steel fuselage and wooden wings which used the USA-35B airfoil . It was originally powered by a 20 horsepower (15 kilowatts) Brownback "Tiger Kitten" engine. Since the young offspring of the tiger is called a cub, Taylor's accountant , Gilbert Hadrel , was inspired to name
28-637: The Cub giving good performance, but it was expensive to maintain. Finally in February 1931, Taylor introduced an improved Cub airframe, powered by the newly developed Continental Motors 37 horsepower (27.6 kilowatt) A-40 engine . The new Taylor E-2 Cub was awarded Category 2 or "Memo" certificate 2-358 on June 15, 1931, and licensed by the U.S. Department of Commerce for manufacture (it was later awarded full Approved Type Certificate A-455 on November 7). Twenty-two E-2 Cubs were sold during 1931, retailing for $ 1,325; by 1935, cost had increased to $ 1475 and by
35-460: The end of production in February 1936, 353 Cubs had been built at Emery Airport, Bradford, Pennsylvania . Data from General characteristics Performance Related development Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Taylor Chummy The Chummy was designed by brothers C. Gilbert Taylor and Gordon Taylor in 1928. It is a braced, parasol-wing monoplane with two seats side-by-side in an open cockpit. Power
42-517: The little airplane "The Cub". The "Tiger Kitten" engine roared but was not strong enough to power the Cub. On September 12, 1930, a test flight of the Taylor Cub ended abruptly when the aircraft ran out of runway; the underpowered engine was unable to lift the monoplane higher than five feet (1.5 meters) above the ground. In October, a Salmson AD-9 radial engine produced in France was fitted to
49-401: Was supplied by a tractor-mounted radial engine. Fixed, tailskid undercarriage was fitted, initially with a through-axle, but later with divided main units. The name "Chummy" was chosen by Gilbert because of the side-by-side seating, an unusual feature in an era when tandem seating was the norm. About nine examples were built, but the exact number is uncertain due to many records being lost in
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