Ever wonder what people did for entertainment before the invention of the internet? Apparently, performing stunts on planes mid-flight (known as Barnstorming) was a big one. Stunt pilots and aerialists performed almost any trick or feat with planes that you could imagine - flips, loops, flying under bridges - they quite literally threw caution to the wind in the name of showmanship.

Typically, barnstormers would set up a base nearby a town, usually on a farm - hence how the activity got its name. The first ever barnstormer was one Charles Foster Willard, who was the 10th person to ever receive an official pilot’s licence, and later became the first to be shot down in a plane when a disgruntled farmer broke his propeller firing a squirrel gun.