Walter Frederick Morrison conceived of a leisure-time flying disc on a California beach in 1937. He made the Frisbee a reality after serving heroically in World War II.
Fred Morrison launched a leisure lifestyle with his fantastic plastic flying saucer. His contribution to global recreation gained air only after he dodged death by steering a steel missile in the skies over Europe in World War II. Morrison, a Southern California beach boy, first called his spinning discs Flyin’ Cake Pans and then Whirlo-Way. It’s known globally today as the Frisbee.
The Frisbee screams America to me,' said Wham-O’s Lin. 'It screams patriotism. It’s a symbol of American culture and creativity and a laid-back, playful but competitive United States.' Something motivated America's war heroes to contribute happiness to America after the horror of war. Morrison's story is hauntingly mirrored by another combat hero pilot: Fredric Arnold, the American who invented the folding beach chair.
Ever since his 1937 epiphany, Morrison had gained intense wisdom studying the science of soaring at Uncle Sam’s school of survival. 'His flying experience gave him new insights the aerodynamics of flight ... and, once out of the service, a new inspiration to pick up where he had left off,' wrote Kennedy. Morrison's first new disc in 1946, the pressed metal Whirlo-Way, was soon replaced with a lightweight disc made possible by advances in plastics.
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