How a 1919 government surplus sale of WWI training aircraft for as little as $200 each launched barnstorming and gave rural America its first taste of flight.
TaildraggerAfter WWI, the U.S. Army auctioned thousands of surplus Curtiss JN-4 Jennies for as little as $200, launching the barnstorming era that brought flight to rural America.
TaildraggerHow Ivan Gates and pilot Clyde Pangborn built the Gates Flying Circus and flew a million Americans on their first flights.
TaildraggerHow the Thirteen Black Cats turned 1920s Hollywood stunt flying into a business with a printed price list for every deadly aerial trick.
TaildraggerHow the Gates Flying Circus and pilot Clyde Pangborn gave a million Americans their first airplane ride in the 1920s.
TaildraggerHow the $50 war-surplus Curtiss JN-4 Jenny launched the 1920s barnstorming era and put a generation of Americans in the sky.
TaildraggerHow Army instructor Ormer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1918 and died filming a Hollywood stunt in 1920, shaping modern aviation.
TaildraggerHow 1920s barnstormers turned surplus Jennies and farmers' hay fields into flying's first schools - and why Oshkosh carries on their legacy.
TaildraggerHow $50 surplus Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' biplanes launched the barnstorming era and put ordinary Americans in the sky.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear of Greenville, Texas invented airplane-to-airplane transfers and became barnstorming's first true showman before dying at 28 in 1920.
TaildraggerHow the Gates Flying Circus flew over a million Americans in the 1920s and built the cultural foundation for commercial aviation.
Taildragger