Volume VII, No. 4, Summer 1980   Edited by Mike King and Chris
Cotrel, Photography by Mike King and John Shore  Many of men's
wildest dreams were ones of wanting to be free and able to fly
through the air among the birds. After much trial, error, and
frustration, the Wright Brothers made this dream come true.
Since then, modern technology has advanced us into the era of
space satellites, supersonic jets, and even men walking over the
face of the moon. But even in the midst of our world's search
for more advancement, there are still some, like my uncle, Ray
Flannary, who want to take their flying back through the years
to the small, cloth covered airplanes of the early forties.  I
started flying in Columbia, Missouri over here when they had the
old airport there in town. They moved it over thirty years ago.
My flying has been just for fun more than anything else. It is
all just a hobby to me.  When I was learning to fly, landing was
the hardest part to learn to do. An airplane's not hard to fly
once it's in th