Download or read book Bootleg Skies 30th Anniversary written by Paul Berge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1929. Prohibition was simultaneously pissing off most Americans while making bootleggers very rich or very dead. That same year saw rapid advances in commercial aviation and twilight for the barnstormers hopping rides from hay fields in war surplus, open-cockpit biplanes. Pilots could buy one for a few hundred bucks, fly it until it crashed and, if they survived, get another. Few barnstormers got rich.