/ CR AFTSMANSHIP / Former welterweight Danny White pulls no punches with the King Cub THE FORMER BOXER FOUND HIS FUTURE IN 1978. That year Danny White, a one-time welterweight from southeastern Minnesota, traveled to Bakersfield, California, to look at an unairworthy Stearman biplane that had long served as a crop duster. He saw potential in the hard-flown, obsolete ag airplane and paid $10,000 for its bones. Then he strapped the steel-tube fuselage and wings to the roof of a rented Mercury Marquis station wagon and loaded other parts in back. BY DAVE HIRSCHMAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS ROSE AOPA PILOT / February 2022 51