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F.W. CASY BALDWIN, one of the pioneer engineers who with Glenn Curtiss, Lt. Selfridge and Alexander Graham Bell developed the early Curtiss ships known as the Red Wing, the White Wing and the June Bug.

DR. FRANK M. TODD. Chicago doctor who in the early days spent much of his time experimenting with flying machines. He was associated with Dan Guptill whom the great minstrel Rice wrote the song OLD DAN GUPTILL AND HIS FLYING MACHINE [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]].

CLIFFORD B. HARMON, first man to fly across Long Island Sound, also first man to win most all the amateur prizes at the first Boston Harvard Aero meet.

THOMAS S. BALDWIN - Dear Uncle Tom, as he was known. He was originally in the balloon business, then turned to making dirigibles, building the first one for the U.S. Government, called the California Arrow; later building the famour [[sic]] aeroplane called the Red Devil.

J. ARMSTRONG DREXEL - one of the first aviators to fly a foreign Bleriot with a Gnome motor. Drexel held the American altitude record of seven thousand one hundred and five feet, but the record was broken the next day.

TODD SHRIVER, the great Cap. Baldwin aviator first man to fly in Puerto Rico.

CHARLES FOSTER WILLARD, first one to carry a newspaper woman reporter on a flight in this country, Boston-Harvard Aero Meet; also first man to carry an army marksman shooting at a target from the air.

BUD MARS, the aviator who gave the Orient its first view of an aeroplane in flight; his early experiences in the Philipines, China and Japan would make a book of good reading. Bud was the first man to land his aeroplane on top of an automobile containing five people, and no one was hurt.

CHARLES K. HAMILTON known as the Cow Boy of the Air. Charley won ten thousand dollars by flying from New York to Philadelphia and back the