Automotive journalist Peter Egan is probably best known for his many years of columns and feature stories about cars and motorcycles in Road & Track and Cycle World magazines, but in the early 1980s he finally gave in to his lifelong fascination with classic airplanes and managed to pursue the third branch of his addiction to romantic modes of travel--namely, flying. While living in Southern California, Peter and his wife Barbara both earned their pilot's licenses, saved up six weeks' vacation from their respective jobs, and took off on a seven-thousand-mile trip around the US in their yellow 1945 J-3 Piper Cub. Flying low and slow, they crossed the deserts of the Southwest and sneaked through the Rocky Mountains to visit friends in Texas, then down through the bayou country of Louisiana and around the Gulf to visit Peter's father in south Florida. From there, they flew up the Atlantic Coast to Kitty Hawk, across the battlefields of the Civil War to the old Piper factory in