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A Citizen Soldier in the Air.

Barnstormers

When Charlie Cook was a boy of ten in 1930, he went to see some barnstormers who had come to his home town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

"They did some amazing things", he says 70 years later, smiling at the memory, "like picking up a handkerchief with a wing tip, or flying inverted just above the grass. They flew biplanes, maybe Curtis Jenny’s, and they would do anything with those airplanes.". After the shows, they would sell rides.

"They’d take you up and show you around the town. My older brother was working, so he paid the $5 for me and I went for a flight. They even did aerobatics on that ride, loops and stuff. It was fun, and I was hooked!"

The Curtis JN-4 Jenny was a WW1-era biplane flown by many barnstormers.
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