Ivan P. Wheaton, Early Aviator.

My grandfather was an early aviator, who flew in WWI. I'm blogging through thousands of vintage photographs and newspaper articles he kept of his exploits between 1913 - 1920.

4/19/2015

Tex Millman's funeral

By this time Ivan had seen more than a handful of aviation deaths. He noted the passing of an individual in his scrapbooks with a star and t...

4/05/2015

Joy of flight

Here is a group of photos all from one page of the scrapbook of Jennys in flight. I particularly like the clouds in these photos since most ...

3/29/2015

Safety first... or second.

Actually this isn't much about safety, but about equipment other than aircraft at Mineola. Ivan kept photographs of all kinds of things...

3/22/2015

Taxi Trainer?

I landed on (sorry) two obscure photos this week. Like the two photos on the 'hazing' recently, these photos are so different that t...

3/07/2015

Safer than auto racing? (or, any landing you can walk away from...)

The old joke in our family about my grandpa Ivan is that his father invested in his flying career because it was safer than auto racing. Iva...

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