Years ago, even before moving to Orlando for a few years after buying a company office from a former employer, I visited a friend and his wife who lived in Key Biscayne. He was a retired Senior Pilot with United Airlines who learned to fly a Jenny from a barn stormer as a teenager when the Jenny landed in his father’s pasture in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He wrote a book about his many flying exploits including barn storming himself, flying the US Mail, and flying supplies to Alaska during the war. During his career with United Airlines he operated out of NYCity. He lost a home he owned in Cuba when Castro took over and that’s why he eventually settled in Key Biscayne. He and his wife Faye would spend half the year in Florida and the other half at his boyhood home in Stillwater. They converted the old barn into a bridal registry that Faye managed and I met them both when I was selling radio time for the OSU KVRO radio station. Faye bought some ads for “The White Barn” and Bob recruited me to help build some storage shelves in the barns loft.
Years ago, even before moving to Orlando for a few years after buying a company office from a former employer, I visited a friend and his wife who lived in Key Biscayne. He was a retired Senior Pilot with United Airlines who learned to fly a Jenny from a barn stormer as a teenager when the Jenny landed in his father’s pasture in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He wrote a book about his many flying exploits including barn storming himself, flying the US Mail, and flying supplies to Alaska during the war. During his career with United Airlines he operated out of NYCity. He lost a home he owned in Cuba when Castro took over and that’s why he eventually settled in Key Biscayne. He and his wife Faye would spend half the year in Florida and the other half at his boyhood home in Stillwater. They converted the old barn into a bridal registry that Faye managed and I met them both when I was selling radio time for the OSU KVRO radio station. Faye bought some ads for “The White Barn” and Bob recruited me to help build some storage shelves in the barns loft.