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GEORGE W. BEATTY, one of the first Wright aviators to thrill the fans at Hendon, England with his Gyro motored Wright. Once while carrying a woman over New York, she became half crazed with fear and tried to grab the controls. He had to hold her with one hand and manipulate the controls with the other hand - he landed safely.

CROMWELL DIXON - first aviator to fly across the great Continental Divide at an altitude of seven thousand feet.

LEONARD WARREN BONNEY. He created a sensation in the Cucamonga region by staying in the air in an eighty-two mile an hour sand storm, when the trains had to stop running. He gave St. Petersburg, Fla. its first chance to see an aeroplane at the fabulous price of twenty-five cents a person.

OSCAR ALLEN BRINDLEY, one of the first aviators to fly one of the Columbia biplanes with one of the first original Gyro motors made by Emil Burlinger, who invented the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell.

CALBRETH P. RODGERS. Like Barney Oldfield of auto fame, he had to always have a cigar in the corner of his mouth; calmly smoking his cigar he left Brooklyn, New Y rk, on the first continental flight. Fifty (50) days later after making thirty stops he reached Pasadena, Calif. He won the fifty thousand dollars given by Wm. Randolph Hearst for the first coast to coast flight.

CHARLES DAY one of the early aviators who built their own machines. He built some of the early Glenn Martin machines. Charley built one of the first chain driven propellers in the ship known as the Day tractor, and his wife flew around the world in one of his ships.

ANDREW DREW. He quit his job as a reporter for the St. Louis Dispatch to become a balloonist. Then quit that to become Governor of the Aero Club