During the late seventies I was a loader boy
for one of the pioneers in the use of Stearmans for crop dusting. Warren Walkinshaw of Fargo ND was a WWII instructor
who had 17 of these planes on his strip. Some were hulks that would be rebuilt during the winter months. Some were flyers
that had P&W 985s and 1340s. Warren preferred the smaller, 985 engined sprayers. His personal plane was easily
identified because chewing tobacco stained the sides of the fuselage.
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