October 11, 1919. Air Derby, Disasters At Sea, Strife in Russia, Newspapers by Air.
Lt. B. W. Maynard, right, in front of a DH-4. Sgt. Kline was Maynard's mechanic and in the second seat. This photo was taken during the Air Derby.
The press was taking an interest in a particular pilot, B. W. Maynard. Maynard was an Army aviator, but the press liked the idea that Maynard was an ordained minister, which he was not. Rather, prior to World War One, he had been a seminary student at Wake Forest.
Maynard had become an Army pilot during World War One, and he was still flying in 1919, just after the war was over. He was killed in 1922 preforming stunts in a "flying circus" event.
Too much was going on, on this day, otherwise to really summarize it. Even the headlines of the papers were a mess.
One new oddity was, however, that the Casper Herald flew newspapers to Riverton, showing how much the Air Deby had captivated the imagination of the state.
