“Each day I would go to my port - if I may call my cow pasture such. It cost the whole sum of $3 per month. I would start the motor, climb in the seat and taxi or slowly roll along the ground. I would only partially open the throttle, thereby gaining very little speed. Finally this became the town joke - Banning and his ground plane.”
Banning discussing his fear of "taking off" in the plane he built
