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WHAT IS BARNSTORMING?

On my site, you will read about fun facts about Barnstormers and many other famous pilots.
I have included a Blog featuring my writing; I post almost daily about different subjects and poems and some comments about my posts.

Barnstormers were pilots that flew in County Fairs, gave rides to paying customers and many were pilots that flew in World War One and were promoting aviation. Many pilots spent many years trying to establish flying services to teach people flying lessons and promote aviation. Many pilots were trying to help establish airplane service for travel and also trying to establish a mail service in the United States. These pilots were fearless and many times landed in farmers fields, followed the train tracks to navigate and were their own mechanics.

Lost in the mountains of Washington

Written by Ric The day was a typical hot day with blue skies and the hot, sweet smell of the desert. I live in the Tri-Cities, WA state. The Tri-Cities is a desert and comprises the cities of Pasco, Richland, and Kennewick. Some call this the Columbia basin. This great basin is where air circulates in a spiral, keeping the winds blowing in a circle. Keeps the air a little polluted and full of pollen. The many forest fires burning in the summer make the smoke a heavy polluta

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Nov 25, 20255 min read

Fun facts about barnstorming

A fact about pilots. Written by Ric The plane is similar to the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny that most barnstormers used. The Air Service part of the US Army used this plane (Nicknamed the Jenny). The war was over in 1918, and the "Air Service" almost gave the planes away for $500 each. The aircraft came in boxes and had to be assembled. If the pilot wanted one, it was often picked up from an army base and had to be assembled by a mechanic. Most of the barnstormers were returning pilo

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Nov 22, 20253 min read

A thought about a hospital visit

Written by Ric Terrible pains, and what do you know, small bowel obstruction, which is serious. I had the same thing happen 5 years back. It’s getting to be a complete (and I’ll use it) drag, won’t say much about it except it involves tremendous pain. This went on for three days. I could go further, but no one needs to hear it. I made up a poem about it after this bout of the infamous episode. hospital Does anyone l

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Nov 16, 20251 min read

The world's first personal computer for under 100.00

The 4 th of Nov; can’t believe it’s almost Thanksgiving and Christmas. What’s on my mind? I got a new MacBook Air and finally got the computer to recognize the hard drive. I finally found the setting to change the font size on my laptop. It’s incredible what that computer can do. When I first received the laptop, I transferred my old data from my 15-year-old Mac to the new MacBook Air. The computer didn’t like that, and I had to delete the system, then reload the operating s

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Nov 4, 20252 min read

About this site

he AI put allot of my posts in a format that reads much darker than my writing.. So you can read the page then iust click off to the left of the page and my page will come up. so you can navigate the site.This only applies to desk tops and tablets. Enjoy the darker easyier way to read writing,then switch over to my original page for navigation Also there are little ^ These are menus' Also, there are (see all) at the end of the Post for navigation then you can also right

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Nov 3, 20251 min read

Terror at O'Sullivan lake in Washington

A Stormy Twist at O’Sullivan Resort: An Unforgettable Adventure How a Weekend Getaway Turned Into a Survival Story This story is all mine (Ric) but written by AI which faithfully followed my story.I wrote more at the end of the story.) Setting the Scene at O’Sullivan Resort There’s something magical about the O’Sullivan resort. Nestled on the edge of a vast reservoir, it’s the kind of place where worries melt away and adventure seems to call from every corner. My family and I

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Nov 3, 20253 min read

Arthur, the king

October 28th 2025 "Arthur the King" is the movie. I was talking to my daughter last night, and the subject came up of what her favorite movie was. She thought for a minute and, almost reverently, said, "Arthur, the movie." She went on to say that it was about a dog befriended by a famous adventurer of the year. He would form a team and then enter them in grueling races through the Amazon and other famous races all over the world. We watched it together last night, and from th

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Oct 28, 20251 min read

We the People

October (written by Ric) 24th 25 We live in a terrific country, and this is an excellent time to live here. If we were poor, we could improve our circumstances; if we were disadvantaged, we have a terrific society that gives us every chance to have a good life. Good and evil come and go, and sometimes societies clash. We in America try to make freedom the norm and have always sought to live by our Constitution, which protects us and guarantees certain inalienable rights. The

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Oct 25, 20251 min read

The quest to tame a wild river was a disaster

The disaster. This happened fifty years ago. Darn, I'm going to give my age away here. I was seventeen, and we were experienced river rafters. We had a crazy leader and generally crazy young men who liked excitement. We didn't have much television, no computers, no computer games, no cell phones, and parents who generally let us do whatever we wanted and loved our experiences. It was a different time, for sure! Here's one experience gone wrong. Date sometime in th

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Oct 11, 20255 min read

Embracing Imperfection: Journey of a Not-So-Great Writer

I must start this post out and acknowledge that I’m not the greatest writer, oh yes, I said it. You ask, why would a writer say this?...

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Oct 6, 20251 min read

My father and two sons..

I My brother, who is five years younger than I, and I had a very bad hobby. It just happened that my new father, who just adopted us, had an avid hobby of loading ammo in his man cave, which we called the gun room. He had the required tools, like a swage device. It's a long-handled lever that was a mystery as to how it worked. I eventually learned you screw in different dies to do different things. Shells that were ejected when you were shooting at the gun range had to be res

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Sep 30, 20253 min read

a step up

. The dog had to go, and he's at my son's home in Pasco. We really love that beautiful black shepherd of 120 pounds. My son in Spokane just gave him to my son in Pasco, so now we have a lot of visit time. I know you're wondering why we lost him. My wife and I needed a retirement home. My wife had been sick for quite a while. So we took her to a nice place at home. My wife got the care that she needed. She, after about 8 months of therpy was miraculously healed so she coul

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Sep 18, 20252 min read

You'll want to know what happened in Seattle in September 1924.

In This was partially written by AI after I outlined it, and then I wrote a story in my own words in the last paragraph. In 1924, Major Harold G. Martin led an extraordinary expedition that made history as one of the first teams to fly around the world in three aircraft. The journey was part of a U.S. Army Air Service mission known as the “World Flight Expedition.” The adventure began in Seattle, Washington, where Major Martin and his crew set off with three modified Douglas

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Sep 5, 20252 min read

How did flight advance so quickly

. They have taken their lifetime experiences and sometimes pass them on to us. I’m a case to study. They say wisdom is the ability to...

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Aug 27, 20252 min read

The Heroic Journey of Commander Richard E Byrd and the Crew of the America

This plane was a monoplane fokker trimotor named the "Josaphine Ford." A Journey Across the Atlantic From Roosevelt Field, L.L. to Ver-sur-Mer, France… Distance: 3,477 miles Flying time: 43 hours 21 minutes. This plane (pictured) is the same type of plane that Commander Byrd flew across the Atlantic Date: June 29-30, 1927 Can you imagine being in a plane for over 43 hours, straining to see through thick fog? That was the reality for Commander Richard E. Byrd and his crew a

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Aug 21, 20252 min read

The birds and the airplane

Posts | Wix.com I was always intrigued by the bird flying free, i imaged myself in the air drifting along, I even had dreams of just that. The birds were studied in great detail by the early innovators of flight. Great innovators of flight include Leonardo da Vinci, who conceptualized flying machines in the 15 th century. Sir George Cayley, known as the “father of aviation,” built the first successful glider in the late 1800s. Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviati

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Aug 18, 20251 min read

Watch this movie

I had the pleasure tonight of watching a very stirring movie about the American can-do attitude. It stars Jimmy Stewart. Jimmy Stewart...

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Aug 1, 20251 min read

The Extraordinary Life of Charles Lindbergh Condensed

Charles Lindbergh and His Transatlantic Triumph I may add a point and that is, this was written by Word AI but it was so good that i put...

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Jul 31, 20255 min read

Left high and dry in 1955

Washington Cascades And old nineteen 50' truck going over cascades A six-year-old headed for a life of petty theft (only until seven years old), after which my Mom remarried, and I received some strict rules from my new stepfather. My biological father, “Dick Robinson,” whom I have mentioned in three other posts. He left us four kids and our mother high and dry, disappearing out of the blue. Back then, in most cases, the deserting father could only be divorced by running an

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Jul 4, 20254 min read

First attempt to cross Atlantic by plane

They set out on their journey late in the afternoon in poor weather conditions. Upon take off, the pilots began the crossing of the...

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Jun 24, 20252 min read

BARNSTORMING

Barnstormingblog

I will be adding my on going research about Barnstorming, which referred to pilots who traveled around the country side drumming up business in the way of rides and flying lessons; in the 1920's and 30's. Flying was their passion, although they needed the money to fund their profession and make a name for themselves.
I have added information about Tex Rankin, Floyd Kelso and different subjects concerning aviation.
I'm including my writing which is a passion of mines.
I hope you'll enjoy my content, it is on going research and my writing is usually daily.