Entries Tagged 'Aviation'

It's Fun When the Barnstormers Come Round

By Dennis E. Powell | Sep 29, 2021 at 10:34 PM

The time was shortly after World War I. The place, almost anywhere that there was an area long enough and flat enough. The sound was the coughing and sputtering of those early engines at the front of any of a variety of war-surplus airplanes. The few surviving military aviators and others who sought adventure had been able to purchase the planes, Curtiss Jenny trainers and the like, and they had set off to find their fortunes.