I love photo sessions like that! Never piloted a plane, but when I was a kid there were several Pipers around. In the late forties and early fifties, a small plane like that was affordable for many successful farmers. A young man in the area where I grew up had an agricultural Piper and operated a spraying business. The Ag. Pipers had a more powerful engine than the standard, and you could tell it was him by the sound of the engine. He went on to become a commercial airline pilot, but sadly died in a crash of a WWII trainer that he had restored. A few years ago I was at an airport at a nearby town and a couple of planes, obviously the gentlemen knew each other, were preparing to take off. One was a late model, I don't know just what it was, he taxied to the end of the runway and revved her up, down the runway for quite some distance and finally became airborne. The other was a J3, and it sounded like it was just idling along, after just a few hundred feet, he was airborne. I found the contrast to be quite comical,
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