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- Lincoln Beachey Stunt Flying over San Francisco, California, circa 1915 - Lincoln Beachey is remembered as America's first great stunt flyer. He perfected a series of aerobatic maneuvers -- including spins, dives, spirals, and loops -- and earned fame and fortune by staging heart-stopping exhibition flights for audiences across the country. Beachey died when the wings broke loose from his airplane during a stunt flight over San Francisco Bay in 1915.
- circa 1915
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Lincoln Beachey Stunt Flying over San Francisco, California, circa 1915
Lincoln Beachey is remembered as America's first great stunt flyer. He perfected a series of aerobatic maneuvers -- including spins, dives, spirals, and loops -- and earned fame and fortune by staging heart-stopping exhibition flights for audiences across the country. Beachey died when the wings broke loose from his airplane during a stunt flight over San Francisco Bay in 1915.
- Lieutenant John Cyril Porte and George Hallet with the Curtiss Aero-Hydroplane "America," 1914 - This photograph advertised what might have been the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. In 1914, British lieutenant John Cyril Porte and American mechanic George E. A. Hallett planned to set out on a transatlantic trip aboard the specially designed seaplane, <em>America</em>. The outbreak of World War I intervened, and the <em>America</em> instead joined the British Royal Naval Air Service.
- 1914
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Lieutenant John Cyril Porte and George Hallet with the Curtiss Aero-Hydroplane "America," 1914
This photograph advertised what might have been the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. In 1914, British lieutenant John Cyril Porte and American mechanic George E. A. Hallett planned to set out on a transatlantic trip aboard the specially designed seaplane, America. The outbreak of World War I intervened, and the America instead joined the British Royal Naval Air Service.
- Katherine Stinson and Biplane before Transcontinental Flight, "It's a Long, Long Way To 'Frisco," 1912 - Petite Katherine Stinson looked younger than her 21 years when she earned her pilot's license in 1912. The press dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl." But Stinson was among the best exhibition flyers of the pre-World War I era. The "tractor" mentioned in the caption is her airplane. Planes with propellers in front of their engines are called tractors, as opposed to rear-propeller pushers.
- 1912
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Katherine Stinson and Biplane before Transcontinental Flight, "It's a Long, Long Way To 'Frisco," 1912
Petite Katherine Stinson looked younger than her 21 years when she earned her pilot's license in 1912. The press dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl." But Stinson was among the best exhibition flyers of the pre-World War I era. The "tractor" mentioned in the caption is her airplane. Planes with propellers in front of their engines are called tractors, as opposed to rear-propeller pushers.