Pilot’s Logbook If you’re an aviation buff, or not, and you have never seen the Robert Redford movie, The Great Waldo Pepper, watch it if you can find it because you’re missing a great aviation flick. Trust me. Okay. Trust me again. The barnstorming era of aviation -- say, late teens through about 1927 when the feds started regulating aviation and pilots -- was akin to the Mountain Man era in the Old West. Both time periods were comprised of rugged individualists, men and women, who flipped off danger and death just so they could live life on their own terms. The barnstormer ...