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Pro-tip: Model T engines make lousy airplane motors

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 2 p.m.

Part of the problem with owning and operating the only flight school in town in the 1920s and 1930s was, every time one of your students slapped together some home-built piece of kit, you’d be expected to help fly it. And "help fly it" usually translated into "go first." (Bend, Deschutes County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1811b.ted-barber-diy-test-pilot-521.html)