1969 Piper Cherokee Airplane
William T. "Bill" Piper was one of the first to apply assembly line
techniques to airplane aircraft production, and is often referred to
as the Henry Ford of aviation. As W.T. Piper, Jr., described him in a
1970 Newcomen Society address, W.T. Piper was a teetotaler of British
stock. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in engineering in 1903,
he went into construction and built the first reinforced concrete garage in
New York City
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