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Hello, I’m Roger K. Beaty, a father, researcher, educator, photographer and entrepreneur exploring the Web and blogging on:  Life, Nature, Science, Technology, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing and Innovation.  Blogging and Tweeting as “KentBeatty”.

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This is me in one of my more reckless moments, flying in an open cockpit 1936 Stearman bi-plane.  I’m in the front seat.  The pilot and owner of the Stearman is Al Stix who flys out of Creve Couer airport near Maryland Heights, Missouri – between St. Louis and St. Charles.  The airport was formerly known as Dauster Flying Field.  The airport has on site the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum. 

What a thrill to fly in this open cockpit aircraft.  On take off it seemed to literally jump into the air.  When I took this photo below I raised the camera up and the wind almost blew it out of my hands!  I lowered the camera just a bit and was able to take some photos.  All together, I have 147 photos of these flights and the aircraft around Creve Coeur here.  Check out these two short videos i took at Creve Coeur here and here.

On the same day, I flew in this North American SNJ T-6 “Texan”

Creve Coeur Airport has an Historic Aircraft Museum with many restored aircraft.

Creve Coeur Airport (formerly Dauster Flying Field) Nautical information.