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For National Aviation Day: On the Flying Circus Phenomenon

For National Aviation Day: On the Flying Circus Phenomenon

This is the third time we have been inspired to observe National Aviation Day with a post! Previously we took a look at wacky airplane movies and their climaxes, and a couple of years later, this post on airplane disaster movies of the 1970s. This year, we remembered that airplane stunting has also been LIVE entertainment for well over a century. From the earliest days of flight “barnstorming”…

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Robert Redford IS "The Great Waldo Pepper"

August 18 is Robert Redford’s birthday; August 19 is National Aviation Day; and it just so happens that this year marks the 50th anniversary of a motion picture that combines those two elements, The Great Waldo Pepper (1975). Redford had an incredible, perhaps unparalleled, winning streak between 1969 and 1985, with occasional peaks and more valleys before and after. Among those 20 or so movies…

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