The year was 1961. John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States of America. Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3 and Piper Aircraft Co. introduced the world to its first low-wing single-engine airplane, the Piper Cherokee. Karl Bergey, who led the Cherokee design team at Piper, was the special guest of the West Coast Cherokee Fly-In, which coincided with this summer's Arlington Fly-In, held at Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO) in Washington State. Continue Reading »
===> Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Meg Godlewski. No comments. © GAN 2011.
