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SCOTT:
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Miss Thaden has set some marvelous records that make our early attempts look pretty simple, but back in the Fall of 1911 I took off from a field on Long Island and soared to the astounding distance of sixty miles.  Today that would be considered just a minor shuttle flight.

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What did you do after that sixty mile flight?

SCOTT: 
For the next few years it was a succession of carnival and fair dates giving flying exhibitions with Lincoln Beachey, Tom Gunn the Chinese flyer, Glenn Martin, Phil Parmalee and many others of the Early Birds.

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Wasn't flying dangerous in those days? 

SCOTT: 
Yes, there was an element of danger. In the early days of any pioneering work there is bound to be accidents. As I compare our ships with the modern airliner of American Airlines that I flew down from Rochester in, I wonder that there weren't more fatalities.

While flying at a meet held in Boston at the old Squantum Field, I lost my flying partner, Harriet Quinby, the first woman to fly the English Channel

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