Brylcreem College Boys...Humbug

[Flying Trucker]

Goodly morning all...old girl is out so I can play...

I was instructing flying on these old Curtiss Jennies before some of these brylcreem college boys were hatched right here at old Borden...yup.

http://www.whiterabbitdesigncompany.com ... creem.html

A little dab'll do ya...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem

Many of us Canucks flew with the Real Flying Corps (RFC...Royal Flying Corps) or the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) from 1914 to 1918 during the Great War I think they now call World War One.

When 1917 came around they sent some of us back here to Canada to flight train students in what became the Royal Flying Corps Canada (1917).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps_Canada

Now these brylcreem college boys got themselves another war, I think they call it World War Two (1939-1945) and got themselves something called the BCATP (British Commonwealth Air Training Program) but now they tell me my aeroplane and I are too old...imagine too old to help out.

I give them a little BUZZ...that will show them who is too old...

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HDE Clouds
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Scenery is from Home of Flight Ontario

http://flightontario.com/index.html

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[Club508]

Nice!

But two things you should notice:
1. That Jenny is a carnival livery.
2. A humbug is also a name for a mint-flavored candy!

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Club508...

Yes we know what Humbugs are, the old girl gets about a pound of those and some Horehound (A candy that is flavoured with an extract of the horehound plant) from a Candy/Chocolate Store that makes their own treats and she picks it up about every month.   

The aircraft I used is supposed to be for Barnstorming and not Military Service as the time period of the shot is between 1939 and 1945 during the Second World War.   ;)

Thanks for your comments...

[Club508]

[quote]Hi Club508...

Yes we know what Humbugs are, the old girl gets about a pound of those and some Horehound (A candy that is flavoured with an extract of the horehound plant) from a Candy/Chocolate Store that makes their own treats and she picks it up about every month.

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Club508...

I don't think it matters which one you use for Barnstorming as long as it is not the military one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstorming

Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, either individually or in groups called a flying circus. Barnstorming was the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight.[citation needed]

The term barnstormer was also applied to pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer's field for a day or two before moving on. "Barnstorming season" ran from early spring until after the harvest and county fairs in the fall.

Thanks for the interest and comments...

[Club508]

Hi Club508...

I don't think it matters which one you use for Barnstorming as long as it is not the military one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstorming

Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, either individually or in groups called a flying circus. Barnstorming was the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight.[citation needed]

The term barnstormer was also applied to pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer's field for a day or two before moving on. "Barnstorming season" ran from early spring until after the harvest and county fairs in the fall.

Thanks for the interest and comments...

Oh!  I had been thinking barnstorming was just flying through barns!  Thinking that, I had been wondering, "I don't think I'd want to pay a dollar to ride in a rickity old airplane with beak marks and chicken poop all over it"

Thanks!

[CHUCK79]

Great shots.....neat airplane 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks Chuck...much appreciated...

[pfevrier]

Cool shots! Are you in a retro mood these days?  looks to me you've gon back in time recently lol!

[patchz]

Very cool Doug.

[Flying Trucker]

Goodly morning all...

Hi Pierre...no not living in the past yet...

One has to remember though when I was growing up and doing a little stick and rudder with my dad or grandfather from the homestead biplanes like the DeHavilland Tiger Moth or the Boeing-Stearman were not uncommon sites, were at nearly every bugsmasher field and very much still in use for civilian flight training.

Amphibious Float Planes were usually only seen in military livery but float aircraft flew up and down the rivers to lakes all the time, if you were on the dock and waved they would rock their wings back.

I learned to fly on the Tiger Moth, even sat in several Curtiss Jennies on the ground, Piper Cubs were mostly only yellow also... and it was normal to see the grass strips being cut with a mower pulled by a team of horses...