Showing posts with label flying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flying. Show all posts
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Sees Commercial Use of Flying Craft Soon

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1916 Aviator Says Aeroplanes Will Be Used for Express and Mail Service Within Few Years. "I expect to see aeroplanes in daily commercia...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Teacher Refuses Tribute to Santa Claus

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1910 By Samuel Parker of Chicago During the recent holiday season a teacher in one of the Chicago public schools was subjected to not a litt...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Orville Wright Is Aeroplane King

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Printed Aug. 1909 Dayton Aviator Sets New Record for Endurance Washington. — Flying 50 miles, which is more than double the distance across ...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Author of "Flying Machine" Poem Sees First Airplane

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Author of "Darius Green and His Flying Machine" 1910 John Townsend Trowbridge Wrote the Poem 40 Years Ago, and the Whole Country L...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Want To Fly High

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1910 Undoubtedly Most Fascinating Form of Air Navigation London. — The most fascinating form of aviation is undoubtedly the high flight. One...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Tame Ducks Display Rare Homing Instinct

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1920 Three Gift Birds Fly Thirty Miles to Former Owner's Farm OMAHA, Nebraska — Sophus Neble presented three tame "wild" ducks...
Monday, June 4, 2007

Woman May Fly Ocean

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1914 Miss Ruth Bancroft Law and her brother, F. Rodman Law, are to try a flight across the Atlantic in a biplane. They expect to make the tr...
Saturday, June 2, 2007

Maud Muller and the Aeroplane (poetry)

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1914 By Henry Howland Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Was in the meadow raking hay. She always had enjoyed good health, But had a hanker...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Flying Machine Balks, Comes Down

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1906 Montgomery Aeroplane Comes Near Killing Aeronaut Wilkie Oakland, Cal., Feb. 23. — An unsuccessful trial was made by Professor Montgomer...
Friday, May 4, 2007

Teen Breaks Arm Five Times

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1909 GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Forbidden by his parents to play football after he had broken his left arm three times in the game, 15-year-ol...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Wrights Home This Week

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After a Day Spent In New York They Will Proceed to Dayton. New York, May 10.—Marked tributes of homage await Wilbur and Orville Wright of Da...