Editing Edwin Albert Link (section)

===Aviator===
He took his first flying lesson in 1920.<ref name=HOF>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalaviation.org/link-edwin/ |title=Edwin Link: Innovator/Inventor/Industrialist |publisher=National Aviation Hall of Fame |access-date=August 27, 2012}}</ref> In 1927, he obtained the first [[Cessna]] airplane ever delivered and eked out a living by [[barnstorming]], charter flying and giving lessons.<ref name=HOF/>

As a young man, Edwin Link used apparatus from his father's automatic piano and organ factory (of the [[Link Piano and Organ Company]]) to produce an advertising airplane. A punched roll and pneumatic system from a [[player piano]] controlled sequential lights on the lower surfaces of the wings to spell out messages like "[[Endicott Johnson Corporation|ENDICOTT-JOHNSON SHOES]]". To attract more attention, he added a set of small but loud organ pipes, also controlled by the roll.