Scott M. Fisher
Gebundenes Buch

Eastern Iowa's Aviation Heritage

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Iowans embraced aviation from its very beginning. In the late 1800s, Keokuk s Baldwin brothers headlined Lee County Chautauqua festivals with balloon ascensions. Two decades later, early powered-flight daredevils like Lincoln Beachey, Glenn Messer, and Eugene Ely thrilled huge crowds along the Mississippi River from Decorah to Fort Madison. Dubuque s Clifton Ole Oleson barnstormed from Oelwein to Mount Pleasant and in communities in between. Visionaries like the Livingston brothers from Cedar Falls and Davenport s Ralph Cram, Don Luscombe, and Billy Cook started air taxi and freight lines, fli...