YOUR FLYING FLIVVER 



IN LESS than a decade you may be using a small flivver plane, 

 a helicopter, or an autogiro as often and as nonchalantly as 

 you have been accustomed in the past to using the "family 

 bus" for week-end trips and vacation outings. In fact, you 

 may turn to flying in order to obtain relief from the strain of 

 driving a car over congested highways. 



The mass-production techniques that have been developed 

 during wartime for the manufacture of a great variety of 

 planes for war use mean low-cost planes for civilian use later 

 on. Furthermore, the incessant testing, checking, and remodel- 

 ing that have been going on during the war, making planes 

 safer and still safer, mean flying ships for civilians later on 

 that will be almost foolproof. 



Scores of manufacturers already have their designs for 

 civilian planes on paper. Most of them, such as the Cessna, 

 Aeronca, Piper Cub, and Taylorcraft, will look something 

 like the light planes of today. Several of these planes will, 

 however, have four-wheel landing gear and folding wings so 

 they can be operated both as a plane and as a car. All of them 

 will have improved engines for low-cost operation and will 

 take off and land safely in small areas. 



The light plane has been tested in battle and found strictly 

 A- 1 in performance. "L"-type Grasshoppers (liaison planes 

 which hedgehop from point to point during battles) are as 

 versatile and hard to hurt as the Army's jeep. Able to take off 

 and land on all sorts of terrain, and to duck among trees or 

 fly slowly to avoid enemy "chicken hawks," the Grasshoppers 



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