This Piper Aircraft Inc. promotional film was presented by Tufts Edgecumbe Inc., distributor for Piper in Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan. The film is narrated by Charles Bill with Russ Reed, photographed by Tom Spalding, and directed by Bob O’Donnell. Pilot students take flight lessons for $5, flying the Piper PA-28 Cherokee. The Cherokee family of two-seat or four-seat light aircraft were designed for flight training, air taxi, and personal use. They started production in 1961.

Credits (00:19). A map highlighting the location of ‘Tufts Edgecumbe Inc.’ (00:45). “This Could Be You” title banner (00:58). Credits (01:05). A Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft flying between clouds (01:30). A View of the inside the plane and the pilot, and his family as passengers (01:44). The children are handed cups (01:59). The Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft flying between clouds (02:29). Pilot, Dave Grant, flying with packages (02:36). Pilot Bob Younger and passenger Celeste Dean flying in the Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft (03:13). Ed Martin and his wife flying (04:04). A “Fly Piper” poster (04:44). Narrator Charles Bill talks about the offered flight lessons (04:49). He looks out his office window onto a Piper flight center (05:12). Families arrive back at the flight center (05:23). A man, Ben, arrives to sign up for flight lessons (06:11). Ben enters an aircraft with his flight instructor (06:37). They take off in the PA-28 Cherokee aircraft (07:18). Footage of Ben and his instructor flying (07:57). Back pressure on the control column causes the airplane to climb (08:30). Forward pressure causes the airplane to fly lower (08:38). Turning the control column left and right steers the plane (08:54). They land on the runway (10:22). The arrive back at the Piper flight center and exit the plane (10:44). Pages are turned in a pilot flight log (11:28). The instructor logs the lesson in the pilot flight log (11:35) and Ben pays for his lesson (11:55). Piper leaflets (12:13). The instructor hands Ben leaflets (12:22). Instructors use audio-visual equipment to teach flight lessons (12:48) starting with the four forces; lift, thrust, drag, and gravity (12:57). The aircraft’s control panel (13:20) including a clock (13:32), speedometer (13:33), a magnetic compass (13:35), a gyro compass (13:37), a gyro horizon to show altitude (13:39), a turning rate instrument (13:45), and one to the show the rate of climb or descent (13:49), an altimeter (13:53). The engine instruments are the voltmeter for the battery (13:57), a meter for oil pressure and oil temperature (14:01), an ammeter for the alternator (14:04), a fuel gauge (14:06), fuel pressure and a tachometer (14:10), a communication and navigation radio (14:16), and an indicator to tell course to and from stations (14:19). Footage of the PA-28 Cherokee aircraft flying (14:25). A rippled brook (15:19). Ben and his instructor are flying (15:24). The instructor stops the engine to demonstrate how the aircraft will function as a glider due to safety measures (16:43). A map showing the many airports location around the flight route (17:16). Point-of-view footage from the flying aircraft (17:25). The aircraft stops on the runway (18:00). The instructor exits the plane, and the student pilot takes his first solo flight (18:09). He starts take-off in the aircraft (18:18). The instructor waves goodbye from the Piper flight center (18:33). The take-off continues (18:40). The aircraft ascents (18:55). The flight continues as the instructor observes from the ground (19:42). The aircraft lands on the runway (20:21). The instructor enters the plane (20:45). Pilot student Ben is mapping out a flight (21:02). Ben and his instructor are flying the planned route (21:17). They land the plane in Chicago, Illinois (23:51). They take off from Chicago to return to the Piper flight center (25:02). (25:28). Ben receives his private pilot’s license in the mail (25:35). Children play on the grounds of the flight center (26:04). A magazine article/advertisement titled “This could be you” (27:05). PA-28 Cherokee aircraft flying (27:11). Credits (28:52).

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