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same day. Charley cracked up so many times he would ask, "Is this ambulance equipt with rubber tires and is the road smooth, if not I wont go."

CHARLES F. WEYMANN, one of the first men to win the International flying cup for the United States, though an American by birth and holding an American pilot's license, he had lived almost all of his life in France and spoke no English.

ARTHUR STONE. He made a record for the world's shortest flight at the 1911 Chicago air meet, he flew 25 feet then turned over not hurt a bit.

EUGENE ELY one of the first men to fly before the Emperor of Japan. First man to fly from the deck of a battleship and to return to the deck.

JOHN A. DOUGLAS McCURDY - early aviator with Alexander Graham Bell and Glenn Curtiss in the building of the first successful Curtiss machine; first to send a wireless message from an aeroplane, first aviator to attempt a flight from the United States to Havanna, Cuba; failed because of an oil leak.

WALTER R. BROOKINS. In 1910 Brookins made the world's altitude record of six thousand one hundred and seventy-five feet. He flew from Springfield, Ill. to Chicago, winning a prize of ten thousand dollars given by H. H. Kohlsaat, publisher of the Chicago Record Herald.

RALPH JOHNSTONE - a trick bicycle rider in vaudeville who quit to be an aviator. Ralph held the world's altitude record of nine thousand seven hundred and fourteen feet.

ARCH HOXEY - one of the first Wright aviators, the first to carry an American President in the air, Teddy Roosevelt at St. Louis.

J. CLIFF TURPIN. Cliff with Phil Parmelle gave many of the early air meets with the small and large Wright machines many a thrill. First man to perform an aerial wedding while flying.