The Cloudbuster Aviator

It was the very early years of powered airplanes, plans for such machines were published in U.S. national aviation magazines. The airplanes being constructed from such plans were changed by craftsmen countrywide. In this case the Curtiss design was modified by a widowed dairy farmer, himself at Death's door. His sixteen year-old son would be the aviator. Associates in the venture were the farm's well educated handy-man and a talented cabinet maker from the nearby town. Legal opposition by the farmer's unmarried sister, his children's guardian after the farmer's death, prevented exhibition flights in Oregon. The Cloudbuster was thus forced to carry out its flying in Washington State during the cool summer of 1912.