Barnstormer Era

Originally Posted by JohnReid

Anyone interested?

You don't have to ask me twice!... The barnstorming/golden age of aviation, to me at least, has always held its own special allure and "magic", if you will. Ah... To be able to live in that better, simpler time! Fair winds, dear friends.

"Prost!"

[cfgray]

Hi, ONEALM and baldeagle,
Would you two consider writing an article, with photos, of course, for SKYWAYS about your Fleet - a personal sort of statement from you both about it would be swell. Especially so that it passed from one forumite to another.
Hope you both give the idea some thought - then let me know.
Best,
cfgray

[Pat Daily]

Here is a photo of my Dad's American Eagle back around 1928. He left it hanging in some trees along a riverbank somewhere in Iowa.

Pat

[baldeagle]

Hopped rides today at the Golden Age Air Museum in their Kinner Bird, you all should've been there...


http://www.goldenageair.org/biplanerides.htm

[Shipmodeler]

There's nothing cooler than barnstorming, but of course you'd have to have a nice ship. Like a Nieuport-Delage Ni-D 29, maybe. If I had the money for a craft, I just might try it, given that the local farmers didn't shoot at me with their 12-guages.

[Simba]

Here's to the Sky Gypsy - the serendipidous flyer. Damn, I was born too late and in the wrong country to be a barnstormer.

Never mind, I was a grade-A hangar rat at Hamble - worked hard in return for a lot of Chipmunk hours - and Old Sarum in the late '60s, where I soloed in open-cockpit Kirby Cadet and Sedburgh gliders. Happy days . . .

Blue skies, guys, and thanks for posting the beautiful photos.

<hoists sundowner>

Cheers!

[JohnReid]

Sounds like fun,Simba!Your a lucky guy.
Cheers! John.