Well I thought it was neat anyway, so humor me....
On Sunday morning I posted a photo on Facebook of Bob taking off in the Curtiss from Akron-Fulton Airport in Ohio
and mentioned that he was heading for Norwalk.
My friend Don immediately posted a comment asking if we knew about Paul Wilber, who in 1912 built and flew a Curtiss copy of his own in Norwalk. Don had a book about Wilber and said that his flying field was still there, although now just a farmers field. I had the leg from Norwalk to Toledo and before take-off I called Don, who went on Google Maps while we talked and gave me a description of how to find the 1912 flying field: follow the train tracks west out of Norwalk, and where they cross a north-south road half way to the next town the field on the southeast side of that intersection is Paul Wilber's old flying field. So I took off, followed the directions, and in a few minutes was descending to make a pass there. The sun was behind me and I could see that for the first time in about 98 years the shadow of a Curtiss Pusher copy was skimming across that field. It looked like it was planted in beans, and there was a house on the west end that had a restored antique pickup truck and tractor parked in the yard. I figured that that guy must know the history of the field, and I hoped he'd come running out the door to watch the Curtiss go by, but no luck, probably sitting on the can wondering what that noise was...
Here's Paul Wilber in his Curtiss copy in that field in 1912
from: http://earlyaviators.com/ewilber.htm
And I also discovered that Wilber's airplane is still in existance!
http://www.norwalkreflector.com/content ... walk-plane
Wind was light, weather was good, it was a good flight to Toledo Suburban Airport.
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