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then Lt. in the National Guard of Missouri, then to become a wonderful aviator winning many prizes at air meets with his bomb dropping and accurate landings. 

CHARES C. WITMER. Charley specialized in hydro and flying boat work. He was sent to teach the Russian army and navy men of the black sea fleet at Sevastopole, Russia, and also to the men of the German Baltic fleet. 

JAMES J. WARD. That boy who did so much flying with the famous Curtiss ship called the Shooting Star. He was tops at the Chicago air meet in 1911. 

PAUL PECK. Paul held the American endurance record four hours twenty-three minutes and thirty-eight seconds; he took his Gyro motored ship off the ground in eleven seconds. That was something in the old days of small horse powered ships. 

GLENN L. MARTIN. He was defeated while running for town clerk in a town in Iowa, so he decided the heck with politics, and became an aviator. He entered a machine in the first International Aviation meet at Los Angeles from there to one of the largest builders of bomber and passenger carrying air craft. 

CAPT. DeFOREST CHANDLER. First to win the Lt. Frank P. Lahm air cup. With J. C. McCoy he stayed in the air in a balloon for twenty hours and fifteen minutes. He then learned to fly a Wright machine and was one of the first army pilots to be sent to Manila to establish an army flying school. He also was the first to fire fifty shots from a Lewis machine gun from an aeroplane at a target on the earth, ship flying at a height of six hundred feet. 

HAROLD H. BROWN. He witnessed the early trials of the Wright Bros. and being a writer for an aero magazine he got the flying bug and Harold was one of the early members of the Aero Club of America.