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Children and Early Aviation
Children and Early Aviation

Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum
McCarran International Airport

Airplanes and air flight captured the imagination of America's youth soon after Orville and Wilber Wright's first flight. World War I heroes, the barnstormers of the 1920s, experimental fliers, and commercial aviators were dashing and romantic figures.

Pilots were portrayed in the popular press as heroes, who braved long odds to make their flights, a portrayal which was not far from reality. Individual pilots caught the public imagination, becoming celebrities, sometimes overnight. Frank Knight, Roscoe Turner, Wiley Post, and, probably the best known of all, Charles Lindbergh, were all role models for budding fliers. This interest was captured in children's literature and children's toys.

Games like "Skyliner" were designed to appeal to this interest, as well as promote a specific airline. Rides at amusement parks featured miniature planes, pedal cars in the shape of planes were popular, and books using aviation themes appeared In many youth series, even those of Red Ryder and Gene Autry.

All this aviation interest was not limited to boys, however. Girls also had aviation toys and literature, aimed at the growing Interest created by many well known aviatrixes, such as Amelia Earhart, Blanche Noyes, and Ruth Elder.

Aviation had come of age in the popular mind. Children could name the planes which flew overhead, and build models of their favorites. They could read about the exploits of their heroes, the dangers of the open sky, and Imagine themselves in an open cockpit, with a white scarf flowing, and dream of actually flying some day.

In a few cases this did come true. Ted Homan, a young Las Vegan, was always helping out at Rockwell Field. He became so well known to local Western Air Express pilots that they actually let him ride along. As an adult, Homan became a pilot for Western Airlines, flying for many years for the airline which had first excited his Interest growing up in Las Vegas.

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Taken on: May 5, 2022
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