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PRESS RELEASE: New Golden Age of Aviation Products Website and Book
Aviation historian and e-commerce entrepreneur Gary W. Hyatt introduces on January 2, 2007 oldairfield.com, a new website that celebrates the people, lore and goods of the Golden Age of Aviation. Hyatt says, “I’ve focused on the history of aviation in the American southwest for the past six years and I discovered a lot of mirth and merriment among the pilots and passengers who passed through Tucson.” Hyatt’s other successful website, www.dmairfield.org, a more serious study of the early history of the Davis-Monthan Airfield in Tucson, marks its second anniversary in May 2007.
Featured at oldairfield.com are clothing lines for men, women and kids that are branded as “modoc Wear™”. Hyatt explains, “Back in the 1920s and 30s part of the flying vernacular was the term “modoc”, defined as a person or pilot who talked boastfully about flying, but rarely flew. We all know a few modocs, don’t we?” modoc Wear™ (note the lower case “m”) abounds with tasteful designs that seek to remind us of what it was like to fly back then, or not.
Another branded product line is “godunk Gear™”. Hyatt explains further, “Again in the 30’s the economy was depressed and people who needed to travel were pretty creative. Some of them hung around the old airfields and bummed rides with pilots going in their direction. In the slang of the day, they were called godunks. A godunk is an aerial hitch hiker; the airborne analog of the bindle stiff on terra firma who rode the rails.” As you might imagine, tote bags are part of the godunk Gear™ online offerings. Fine aviation art and a speaker’s bureau round out the products and services provided by oldairfield.com.
A highlight among the over six hundred initial products offered at oldairfield.com is a 340 page book crafted by Hyatt entitled “The Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed There and Their Airplanes.” Don’t let the title scare you. This is a very approachable and useable book, which documents the 3,689 landings at the Airfield between 1925 and 1936. It contains three valuable chapters that allow readers to cross-reference pilot names and airplane numbers with grayscale images of the Register. The Register itself comprises the first 218 pages of the book. It’s a fun and valuable reference for Golden Age buffs, historians, students, modocs, and godunks too.
“I’m building oldairfield.com around some of the lessons of having fun and good nature coming from my studies of the Golden Age. It’s loosely based on dusty southwest themes, with a feel of bombast and tongue-in-cheek story telling we have learned to expect and enjoy from pilots and other aviation types of that era.” As an added bonus, Hyatt says, “You’ll get to know Your Old Pilot, who is an outspoken ghost who rattles hangar doors whenever and wherever fellow spirits of the old Davis-Monthan Airfield are out and about. Your Old Pilot is a regular correspondent at oldairfield.com representing, celebrating and providing laughs about the Golden Age of Aviation. He is at once eloquent, ornery, overbearing and long-winded. Your webmaster is not responsible for what Your Old Pilot says.”
Hyatt concludes, “My book is a great browse. The website is new, it’s fresh, it’s fun, and I hope your readers will logon, strap in and enjoy everything!”
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