Lindbergh

During this time, he also briefly held a job as an aeroplane mechanic in Billings, Montana, working at the Billings Municipal Airport (later renamed Billings Logan International Airport. | Which the academy President Ray Page insisted upon in the event the novice flyer were to damage the school's only trainer in the process. | To both gain some needed flight experience and earn money for additional instruction, Lindbergh left Montana in June to spend the next few months barnstorming across Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, as a wing walker and parachutist with E.G. Bahl and later H.L. Lynch. | A few days later, Lindbergh took his first formal flying lesson in that same machine with instructor-pilot Ira 0. Biffle, although the then 20-year-old student pilot was never permitted to "solo" during his time at the school because he could not afford to post a bond.