The Cumberland Times reported in 1925 the following:
During the Defense Day parade and exercise in 1925, an airplane, owned by Alex Rankin, of Frostburg, and piloted by Sergeants S. C. Huff and Ronald B. Landis, flew over the city and performed several stunts. The fliers hopped off at 4:45 o’clock at the local landing field and were in the air about 45 minutes, flying very low over the city. The exhibition attracted much attention.
Landis and George Eyerman, a local professional photographer, who later went to Hollywood as a movie photographer, took the first aerial photographs in this area. One shot was made while the Jenny was in a tailspin over the fairgrounds at Fairgo with the camera aimed over the nose and through the propeller on the opening day of the Cumberland Fair.
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Wings Over Cumberland 