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Pioneer aviator survived 5 crash landings in 2 days
ON A GUSTY late-summer evening in 1930, well after dark, a few feet off the ground near the Oregon-Nevada border, 22-year-old Ted Barber was hurtling through the blackness, preparing to die. Barber was an aviation pioneer and an actual barnstormer — a pilot who paid the bills by making the circuit of county fairs and country dances, selling airplane rides and flying lessons and performing daring tricks like wing-walking and inverted low passes. His “ship” was a Waco 9, a primitive but rugged biplane built in the mid-1920s. This was going to be his fourth crash-landing of the weekend. And it was looking like it was going to be a bad one. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/2406d-1103c.ted-barbers-night-flight-115.655.html)
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