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Flying Farmers take off

By Janice Wood · March 20, 2009 ·

Robert B. Noll fell in love with flying as a farm boy.

“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 learned to fly and bought a 1935 J3 Piper Cub, then joined the Pennsylvania chapter of International Flying Farmers.

Read full story at: Articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/234584

About Janice Wood

Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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