Bodiford’s Brown County Histories: Pioneer Aviators Visit Brownwood: 1912 – 1914
Herman F. Westig was the barnstormer who first brought aviation to Brownwood. On February 5, 1912, Herman and his mechanic brother Ernest gave a large crowd of 2,000 persons their first view of the miracle of flight. This was quite a turn out considering that the total population of Brownwood at that time was slightly less than 7,000 persons.
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