Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, either individually or in groups called a flying circus. Barnstorming was the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight. History Initial growth The Wright brothers and Glenn Curtisses had early flying exhibition teams, but barnstorming didn't become a formal phenomenon until the 1920s. During the first World War, the United States had manufactured a signific… (More on Barnstorming)