RearView II now FINISHED! Rearview II takes up where Rearview I left off. It en- compasses JR's oil career from Wyoming to Okla- homa to Texas and then to the shores of Tripoli to Colombia to looking for the Dutchman's lost gold mine in the Superstition Mtns.
The family cabin in Colorado is purchased and built, numerous anecdotes, vacations and, of course, the notorious Halloween Treasure Hunt party!!
RearView - Small town in Wisconsin, an octagonal schoolhouse, the depression, WWII, flight school, B-24 bomber pilot, Amazon jungle - an autobiography by Jerry R. Kyle
RearViewis a 208 page, illustrated autobiography in MS Word 97 format that spans the years from 1918 to 1945 beginning in a small town in Wisconsin, tripping through the jungles of South America mapping the Amazon, Air Force B-24 bomber flight school and ending in the oilfields of Wyoming, Texas and Oklahoma. The author, now 83, relates the time he rented a Piper "Cruiser" after the war to take some teenage boys from his hometown joyriding:
"We flew back to Downsville where I did a loop or two and buzzed the boys' houses. Then, for some additional excitement for the boys, I dropped down to barely above the Red Cedar River which flows through town, and flew under the bridge which provided vertical clearance equivalent to a three story building. It was, I must confess, a fairly nerve tingling stunt that I think was well enjoyed by my passengers, although one, unfortunately, did throw up afterwards."
There are over 100 photo illustrations such as the octagonal Downsville schoolhouse that housed all eight grades, a childhood homemade glider, the author's jungle pet mountain lion "Oscar", and Jivarro shrunken heads.
Watch the 7-minute movie. Take off inside the cockpit with the pilot in a WWII B-19 bomber and see the glider my father made as a young boy. Photos and a tribute to 90 years of flight that began with the Wright brother's glider (actual footage) and came full circle with the powerless glide of the space shuttle back to earth.
This movie was made as a tribute for my dad's 90th birthday and his lifelong love of flying.
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