Forever Stearman

Credit: Howard Zipp Collection/Museum of Flight
The peripatetic life of Lloyd Carlton Stearman was full of moving vans and irony. When he was an elementary school student in Kansas, Stearman caught sight of his first airplane. It was being flown by an adventurous fellow by the name of Clyde Cessna, a man whom years later would become Stearman's...

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