THE PIPER CUB FORUM

Remember when Cubs were the downscale vehicle for ex-GIs and youngsters dreaming of flight? Well, probably not, but that's the way it was when I was in high school. What a difference seventy years has made! I grabbed this photo from "Mansions," the Friday supplement to the Wall Street Journal, in a front-page feature called "Low Country Luxury." (And you have to understand that luxury, for readers of the Journal, means something different than it does for most of us.) In this case, the hangar is actually the second one on the estate, which also has two grass runways and is located in Sheldon, South Carolina. The 325-acre estate is up for sale at $5.9 million, and that is on the low side for an area whose householders include actor Ben Affleck, former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, Congressman Terry Sanford, and at least one billionaire. I don't know whether the Cub and the other plane, also a taildragger, are included in the asking price. Blue skies! — Daniel Ford

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