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Article: Flying Farmers Enjoy Affair Of The Air ; When The Sun Sunk Toward The Horizon, They'd Hop In Planes And Fly Home In Time For Evening Milking.
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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Robert B. Noll fell in love with flying as a farm boy.
Several times a year, he'd finish his chores on his family's
Rohrerstown farm and walk two miles to the former Lancaster Airport
on Manheim Pike.
"I watched the airplanes," the 88-year-old Lancaster man said.
"Barnstormers were doing fancy stunts."
Joining them in the skies must have seemed as far-fetched as a
cow jumping over the moon.
But after World War II, Noll took a course, bought a 1935 J3
Piper Cub and started flying.
The young pilot joined the Pennsylvania chapter of International
Flying Farmers.
The group started in Stillwater, Okla., in 1944. Membership took
off and soared to more than 11,000 in the U.S., Canada and Mexico at ...