Fairchild’s Model 71 – A Working Bird to the End

If you were into airplanes at the time, the 1920s was an exciting time. The previous decade had seen the airplane enter as a rickety box kite that, by the end of the decade, had morphed into an amazingly lethal tool of the fighter pilot’s trade. The 1920s saw similar progress but in a less lethal vein. The concept was so new yet so basic that entrepreneurs ran with it and put an airplane manufacturer...