How the Gates Flying Circus barnstormed America with war-surplus biplanes in the 1920s, turning curious farmers into the next generation of pilots.
TaildraggerIvan Gates never learned to fly, yet his Gates Flying Circus introduced an estimated one million Americans to flight and helped forge U.S. aviation culture in the 1920s.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1917 as a mechanical fix, not a stunt, and died on camera at 28 performing a night dive for a Hollywood film in 1920.
TaildraggerHow Texas daredevil Ormer Locklear invented wing walking on a Curtiss Jenny - and how his death shaped modern airshow safety.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear invented professional wing-walking and the deadly plane-to-plane 'Dance of Death' - until a 1920 film stunt killed him at 28.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, invented wing walking and the mid-air plane change before dying on film in 1920.
TaildraggerHow Ivan Gates and Clyde Pangborn built the Gates Flying Circus, sold dollar airplane rides, and flew the first nonstop crossing of the Pacific.
TaildraggerThe story of Ormer Locklear, aviation's first great wing walker, and the searchlight signal that failed on the night he died.
TaildraggerBefore the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh spent four barnstorming years wing-walking, parachuting, and teaching himself to fly a surplus Jenny.
TaildraggerHow wing walker Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny turned 1919 America into a nation that looked up at the sky.
TaildraggerHow barnstormer Ormer Locklear pioneered midair plane changes and died filming a stunt for The Skywayman in 1920.
TaildraggerHow the Gates Flying Circus and Clyde 'Upside-Down' Pangborn sold America its first airplane ride for a nickel and shaped a generation of pilots.
TaildraggerHow the war-surplus Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' gave 1920s America its first taste of flight and launched the barnstorming era.
TaildraggerHow Ormer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, pioneered plane-to-plane transfers and died filming a night stunt in 1920.
TaildraggerBefore crossing the Atlantic in 1927, Charles Lindbergh spent four years barnstorming the Great Plains as a wing-walker and parachute jumper.
TaildraggerThe Gates Flying Circus gave over a million Americans their first airplane ride and helped turn a nation onto flight in the 1920s.
TaildraggerHow barnstormer Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny sold America its first airplane ride after World War I.
TaildraggerGlenn Curtiss went from fastest man on Earth to inventing the seaplane and the trainer that taught America to fly.
TaildraggerHow Gladys Ingle of the Thirteen Black Cats changed an airplane wheel in mid-air, and why barnstorming built modern aviation.
TaildraggerThe story of Ormer Locklear, the first wing walker, who invented aerial stunting in barnstorming's golden age before dying at age 28.
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