Puddle Jumper
No google for this one.
In the 1930's there was a kid show hosted by "Uncle Don" who talked about his Puddle Jumper, an autogiro.
The show was very popular … until Uncle got caught using profanity on a live mike.
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OK, the real answer:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puddle_jumper
A small passenger airplane, typically used for shorter connecting trips to smaller airports.
I have a sister that's lived in Anchorage for 3 decades:
http://livinginak.blogspot.com/2009/03/travelling-puddle-jumpers.html
autogiro - a form of aircraft with freely rotating horizontal vanes and a propeller. It differs from a helicopter in that the vanes are not powered but rotate in the slipstream, propulsion being by a conventional mounted engine.
Thanks, I'd never heard of them before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kxu543VwlA
Then there's these things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aircraft_(United_States)
Well Carl, it may please you to hear that, according to Wikipedia -- the world's most respected source of information -- Uncle Don was probably innocent of that charge!
Thanks, John. I am pleased to have Uncle Don vindicated in my mind after all these many, many years.
" Although this legend has been applied to Uncle Don and nearly everyone else who ever hosted a children’s radio program between the 1920s and the 1960s (and even to some television hosts as well), it is perhaps the greatest apocryphal “manufactured memory” in American popular culture." (Snopes)