Putting Dreams to Flight

Book Description/Summary

While still in his teens, Leland Snow literally rose into the air through his own devices. A generation younger than the wild-haired barnstormers of post-World War I entertainment flight, Snow was meticulous about making his planes not only flight-worthy but efficient. Like many gifted people in various disciplines, he tested limits.

Safety and possibility didn’t need to fight each other, he thought. He had a practical purpose in mind – bettering agricultural development.

Barely in his twenties, Leland Snow, with some other flight-hungry fellows, flew to Nicaragua to do a season’s worth of crop-dusting.

Bettering his craft, he’d fly down there a number of times. Although the wages were sometimes minor and the dangers great, he returned with a head full of knowledge and a wealth of problems to solve. A friend of serendipity, he had a mission: to manufacture his own planes. And he met a community that seemed as enterprising as he was, Olney, a small town in North Texas. His career would find its home there, and that was where, too, through several reversals of fortune, he’d keep his operation in place.