| #11797340 in Books | 1988-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.08 x6.98 x8.71l,1.28 | File Name: 0689313462 | 88 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Gold Mine|By K.M. Weiland, Author of Historical and Speculative Fiction|I swear. Sometimes children's books are the best place to find juicy details about a subject. I've spent the last month reading about barnstorming and early aeronautics, but this little book is a delightful gold mine. It offers not just anecdotes (well told, without any of the condescension found in the le|From School Library Journal|Grade 6-9 A well-written account of some of the young barnstormers and daredevils who helped to bring aviation to the common people of this country. The first chapter describes what it might have been like for a young pilot as he soa
A history of barnstorming in America, with an ample number of anecdotes about the dangerous acrobatics and stunts performed by thrill-seeking exhibition flyers, mostly ex-military pilots, especially during the 1920s.
