DIANE ADAMS: Early flights in Brown County

DIANE ADAMS: Early flights in Brown County

“Miss Katherine Stinson, the youngest aviator in the world”, flew joyride flights at the Brownwood fair in 1914, according to the Daily Bulletin My friend and fellow columnist Don Newbury suggested a column on the history of the Brownwood airport. What I found while reading about it, is that there is a lot of prehistory, air transport before the airport was built, that is actually remarkable. I did not realize that Brownwood was a bit of an earl…