Flying With Forty Horses

This is the story of the Continental A-40, the gutsy little engine which revived the struggling aviation industry during the Great Depression.  Born out of a desperate necessity in 1930, it powered over a dozen lightplane models of that era.  The book details each of these planes including the E-2 Cub, the Taylorcraft A and the Rose Parrakeet.  Selling for half the price, ($400), of most competitors, and operating for pennies an hour, it enabled thousands to learn flying at minimum cost.  Years later, its descendant the A-65 would power a host of CPT trainers, and later military planes such as the L-2, L-3 and L-4.

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