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ART SMITH. Art was a fine instructor at the Kirkam school at Scoona, N. Y. but decided to do barnstorming. He became the champion look the looper in an aeroplane.

AL ENGEL. Early Curtiss aviator with his hydroplane, the Bumble Bee gave many a fine exhibition. Al one time landed his ship on a cow.. When the ship was removed the cow just mooed and ran away. Al said, "if you have to land hard, pick something soft."

MOHAN SINGH - one of the first Hindus to come to America to learn to fly. Mohan later became a very noted Hindu Yoge, lecturing all over the world.

MISS FLORENCE SEIDEL, one of the first women to learn to fly a hydroplane at the Glenn Martin school at Santa Ana, Cal.

ADOLPH SUTRO. Adolph was Bob Fowler's mechanic on Bob's coast to coast flight. He quit the electrical engineering to become an aviator and held the world's altitude record carrying two passengers seven hundred and fifty feet.

SILAS and HARRY CHRISTOFFERSON. Early builders of their own ships; they also built their own propellers; their great stunt was when they flew from the roof of the Multonomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

BILL PICKINS - that great manager of aviators who guided the destines of Lincoln Beachey and Shure Shot Kearney. 

CAPTION W. I. CHAMBERS. He established the U S N Aviation Service. He was the one who thought up the idea of flying from the bow of the USSS Birmingham. He was called the father of naval aviation.

CHAS. KIRKHAM whose early machine work helped Glenn Curtiss build his first motors. Charley and Clarence later developed the famous Kirkham motors.