Knights Without Parachutes

Working on adding some books by Jack Stokes Ballard.  As a former USAFA history professor, now in his late 80's, he has personally seen a lot of the aviation history of the last century. One book is about Field Kindley, an ace who would probably have been one of the major names in USAF history (doesn't hurt to start with a memorable name that could easily be reversed to name an airfield...) if it weren't for his death in an accident shortly after WWI. One of the fascinating things about Kindley is that before the war he was a movie projectionist. A what? This...

This shop really started several years ago, when we stumbled onto a little museum that was having a fly-in. We talked a bit to the friendly guy driving the shuttle bus from the parking area, and later were surprised to see him walking around in a WWI uniform. Eventually we figured out this was the director of the museum, Andy Parks. Somewhere after that we learned that it wasn't a replica WWI uniform he was wearing - this was the real thing! It was fun watching the colorful little WWI replica airplanes fly, and we got to look at them...