The Piper J-3 Cub is ... that trained thousands of military and civilian pilots. Perhaps the Cub's most recognizable feature was its distinctive "Lock Haven Yellow" paint scheme with black ...

[Courtesy: Jim Stevenson] Piper came through, producing several thousand examples of the L-4 Grasshopper, which was essentially a J-3 Cub with additional windows and different paint. While the ...

Soon, wartime demands would push the production rate so high that one Piper J-3 Cub was being built every 20 minutes. In military versions Cubs were variously designated as the L-4, O-59 and NE-1 ...

Piper L-Birds ★ Paint a Piper J-3 Cub trainer olive drab, to paraphrase Bill Piper Jr., and it becomes an L-4 Grasshopper, a military transport with a top speed of 92 mph. During the war ...

Just for the sake of argument, we'd like you to list the most important and famous American military airplanes of ... based on the civilian Piper Cub, surveyed battlefields, conducted surveillance ...