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[[image description]] Man flying in airplane [[/image description]] This 1912 Curtiss pusher was discarded by the Navy in 1916, but Capt. Holden Richardson flew it in 1928 in a show demonstrating the progress of aviation.

[[image description]] Plane flying low over a street [[/image description]] Workers lined the steps of the old State Department Building to see a flying machine soar over West Executive avenue in 1910. Low-level flights like this are banned today.

When Aviation Was Young

[[image description]] Man standing next to a propeller [[/image description]] Planes once were manufactured at Tenth and Water streets S.W. James L. Simmons, part owner, shows one of the "props."

[[image description]] Helicopter close to the ground [[/image description]] A milestone in aviation was the flight of this helicopter at College Park on July 16, 1922. It was designed, built and flown by Henry A. Berliner, son of inventor Emile Berliner, who had experimented since 1903.

[[image description]] Two men sitting in an airplane [[/image description]] Orville Wright and Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, pioneer Army flyer, at the controls of plane they flew from Fort Myer to Alexandria and back in July, 1908. The Army bought it.

[[image description]] People around plane wreck [[/image description]] A few months later, they lifted the plane wreck off Lt. Selfridge, who was killed in the crackup. Orville Wright was seriously hurt. It was the first plane fatality.