Here are some more views from the cockpit.
Approaching from the north side of Dunnville, Creechan's Fine Fuels is centre-frame, with P&M Languay Pump and Compressor Division to the right. Dead ahead, Dunnville Union Station:
And a quick view looking back, with the offices of the John Bertram Company almost directly below. Barney had just thrown a couple of empties, which had been rolling around on the floor, out of the cockpit, and I had to airbrush them out of the photo. One narrowly missed that Packard leaving the grounds with a new lathe.
Continuing on, Coldfield Washer is to the left, with WilKinson-Kompass straight ahead. Barney has always flown "close to the edge", but these factories also appear to be perched on the edge of the world.
National Grocers warehouse complex is to the right:
Putting his Stearman biplane into a skid, Barney captured the following sequence of pictures. How he manages to control the plane, operate the camera, and never spill a drop of his ever-present drink remains a source of wonder:
Surprisingly, this shot, looking north, is part of the same sequence, and was taken looking forward.
That's the roof of Wilkinson-Kompass directly below:
With the little plane now moving backwards, Barney snapped this "going away" shot:
Then, after calmly finishing his drink, put his plane into a dive (and he's been thrown out of many) in order to recover airspeed. Bystanders watching nearby thought that he might attempt to fly between National Grocers and the Evell Casket Company, but Barney had previously measured that opening in the "sky", which leads to the railroad's south staging yards, and knew that his plane would not fit.
One of the young Evell boys, though, seen at the bottom left of the frame, was having fits of his own, as he's been trying for ages to unlock that car of his.
I hope you've enjoyed these further escapades of our daring fly boy.
Wayne