Have you ever heard of Earle Ovington? Ovington, for whom the Santa Barbara Airport terminal is named, was an inventor and aviation pioneer who spent much of his influential life on the South Coast.

U.S. Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock hands the first mail bag to Earle Ovington at Sheepshead Bay, New York, 1911. You can trace the concept of airmail from the homing pigeons of antiquity to ...

Earle Ovington meant well. “It is a peculiar fact, but nevertheless true that a man seems to think that he is able, or competent rather, to design an aeroplane, whether he knows anything about ...