E.A.A.

“The whole concept that we are able to get additional land out of the E.A.A. — that has always been very difficult to do in the past,” said John H. Hankinson Jr., chairman of the board of directors at Audubon of Florida, referring to the Everglades Agricultural Area.

E.A.A. now has 140,000 members in 750 chapters around the globe.

"Remember, most of the people in the world have not flown -- many yearn to," says Tom Poberezny, Paul's son and the current president of E.A.A.

Yet for all its drawbacks, E.A.A. is one of the world's most successful airlines.

E.A.A. soon had the planes paying handsomely by flying them 14 hours a day.