After circling to find a good pasture or stubble field from which to operate (a piece of open ground close up to the village being of course most desirable from a showman's point of view), Maben would fly low, and Hal would begin to do wing-walking. If the sight of a young fellow walking and cavorting and skinning-the-cat between wire struts on the wing of a flying plane didn't catch the eye of the crowd, the parachute drop could always be counted on to "get 'em going." After the stunts, Maben would fly low and ease to a perfect landing to show folks how safe it was to come down in an airplane.