Luscombe

J 3 Piper Cub

Top Eric , Matthew and Jacob ready to fly.

Neil Toov ready for a ride in the

J 3

Verdie Gilbertson pilot.

Stearmans

My First Flying Lesson

My first flying lesson was in a Luscombe in 1942. and then I moved up to a Cub. From there I flew seven days in a row for a total of eight and one half hours in 2 weeks. My instructor was George Skalicky. The filed was a hayfield located on the Watson Road on the edge of Montevideo, Minnesota. The cost for an hour of flying time was
$ 6.00 per hour. At the time I was earning 35 cent per hour as a boxmaker at Swifts food packing plant.