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| Frank B. Baker and his J-3 Piper Cub |
The author grew up during the
"Golden Age of Aviation" and WWII and always has been participant in
things aeronautical. He is a well-known designer of radio control model
airplanes. He has published numerous magazine construction articles for such
models, specializing in multi-engine WWII bombers. In 2015, the national Academy of Model Aeronautics inducted Frank into the Model Aviation Hall of Fame.
During the Korean War, he was a navigator in B-26's flying day and night
weather reconnaissance as well as night photo missions out of K-14 air base
near Seoul, Korea.
In 1969 he restored a badly damaged
Piper Cub to like new condition. He received his Private Pilot Certificate in
the same year. Since then he has accumulated over 3,000 hours of flying time in
this Cub. Much of this time has been acquired on long cross-country flights to
distant parts of the United States, totaling some 71,695 miles. Routes, such as
to Denver and Lock Haven, PA, have been flown many times. He also has
considerable experience in mountain flying.
In
parallel with being a Piper Cub pilot, the author has been a University
professor and researcher in the field of psychometric theory and has
published a number of books in this area.
He is a long time member of EAA, the Cub Club, and of the Midwest Antique
Airplane Club.
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