Vintage 1910 RPPC Aviator William Evans Flight Skidmore Punkin Airplane Air Show Postcard Missouri
This is one of the first professional aviators:
"William M. Evans lived and flew in Kansas City from 1910 to around 1923. The Iowa-born aviator told reporters that he had been a daredevil bicycle rider, balloonist, and parachute jumper as a young man before purchasing his first aeroplane and taking flight.
Evans originally ordered a Santos Dumont Demoiselle from 16-year-old Thomas F. Hamilton of Seattle and practiced his first flights with J. A. McCallum.
His aviation career began in earnest when he purchased a biplane in the summer of 1910 from William Greene of Rochester, NY and advertised himself as an aviator-for-hire. Evans’ practice flights at the aviation field in Overland Park, Kansas made national news as the longest flight by a novice. His exhibitions at Skidmore, Missouri and at Larned and Lawrence, Kansas thrilled thousands of spectators. He briefly toured with the W. I. Swain Shows in the southeast and flew with Captain T. S. Baldwin’s team at Mineola."
It measures 5.5" x 3.5"
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