Airplanes have been around for as long as I can remember.
My Dad was a Crop Duster, as a 5 year old I used to play at the airport while he worked on his Stearman Bi-Plane. The sound of a Radial Engine is forever etched in my mind and will bring me running out of the house any time I hear one.
He crashed ihs plane and died in 1952, not long after the attached picture was taken.
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