THIS November we’re celebrating William E. Barrett’s Birthday on the 16th with four of his pulp stories—one each Friday.

Before he became renown for such classics as The Left Hand of God and Lilies of The Field, Barrett honed his craft across the pages of the pulp magazines—and nowhere more so than in War Birds and it’s companion magazine War Aces where he contributed smashing novels and novelettes, True tales of the Aces of the Great War, encyclopedic articles on the great war planes as well as other factual features. Here at Age of Aces Books he’s best known for his nine Iron Ace stories which ran in Sky Birds in the mid ’30s!

This week we have another of his “Sky Talks” from the pages of Air Trails. In “Twins and Trouble,” our flight instructor Brad tells us of the time he had to instruct a Señor Enrique Gopez’ two sons. Gopez senior had gained some notoriety of late for successfully quelling the revolution in his country. Instructing Señor Gopez’ two kids in the fine art of flying wouldn’t have been such a tough job until Brad’s told the two boys are twins, and to Brad twins meant trouble—double trouble!

From the pages of the February 1930 number of Air Trails, it’s William E. Barrett’s “Twins and Trouble!”

Another “sky talk” yarn, proving that trouble never comes in small doses—particularly in the air.

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