Talk:Aviation in Pennsylvania

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Hello, fellow members of WikiProject Pennsylvania,

"Aviation in Pennsylvania" is one of a number of Unassessed Pennsylvania Articles awaiting attention. It has not yet received ratings on the project's quality or importance scales. So, in the interests of moving this article along, I'm posting a request here for other more experienced members of WikiProject Pennsylvania to provide input.

Based on the project's criteria, I think this article should be rated as High or possibly even Top on the importance scale since Pennsylvania has a rich aviation history, but should be rated as Start or-Class regarding quality. (Although the article currently has good structure, additional historical content and citations should be added and typos need to be corrected.)

Among the supporting facts for the article's designation as one of High or Top Importance: a.) the first airmail sent by a U.S. President was sent by George Washington from Independence Hall in Philadelphia via a hot air balloon in 1793 (source: U.S. National Park Service); b.) Pittsburgh native Calbraith Perry Rogers, Jr. completed the world's first transcontinental flight in 1911 (source: Heinz History Center); c.) the Reading Air Show was one of the largest events of its kind in the world between the 1950s and 1970s (source: the Smithsonian's "Air and Space Magazine"); and d.) the Pennsylvania Legislature and Governor designated the Piper J-3 Cub as Pennsylvania's official state aircraft in 2014, noting that it had become "the most popular and best-known light aircraft of all time." Piper employees in Lock Haven reportedly "turned out a new Cub every 20 minutes" when production was at its highest just after World War II.

However, none of these facts have been included in the article. (The history sections are significantly underdeveloped with little to no citation.)

As to the present quality level of the article, "The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas," while some of the prose is "distinctly unencyclopedic" (both indicating a Start-class level), but it also "cites more than one reliable source [3 total references] and is better developed in ... structure ... than Start-Class," (but "fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class").

Questions for Your Input:

1.) Should "Aviation in Pennsylvania" be given an importance rating of High or Top?

2.) Should this same article be rated as Start or C-Class? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47thPennVols (talk • contribs) 21:31, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Piper Aviation in Lock Haven is definitely a notable part of aviation history in the state; see William T. Piper Memorial Airport or Piper Aviation Museum. Alpacaaviator (talk) 05:45, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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