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MAJOR R. E. SCHROEDER, Shorty to all the old timers. Mechanic for Otto Brody. He later became one of the first test pilots for the U.S. Air Corps. First man to reach the height of thirty-eight thousand feet.

HENRY KLECKLER. Henry was Glenn Curtiss' right hand man for many years. Henry learned to fly at North Island, San Diego, becoming a good aviator, but he loved to pilot the old Curtiss plant at Hammondsport, N. Y. better.

FRED WAGNER. Early movie photographer, first man to take pictures while flying in George Beatty's aeroplane at Chicago Air Meet in 1911.

OTTO W. BRODIE  Otto was one of the first aviators to fly a European ship in the United States, a Farman Biplane; using this ship he flew the first percel post delivery service from Clearing air field to the town of Argo, Ill.

L.A. VILAS, first man to fly across one of America's inland seas, flying across Lake Michigan. Also the first man to fly for the forest rangers to locate forest fires.

CAPT. HUGH L. WILLOUGHBY. Capt. made many balloon flights. He began to experiment with hydroplanes. His early ship the Pelican, was one of the first hydroplanes. At the age of sixty-eight he took up stunt flying. His instructor was the great Eddie Stinson.

WILLIAM ELWOOD DOHERTY, known to old timers as GINK. One of the early aviators who successfully flew the famous Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley tandem monoplane for twenty miles on Lake Kauka, N. Y.

LOUIS GERTSON, one of the first aviators to fly at night, using a full illuminated plane. Later Louis became a very fine flying boat aviator

C. A. DeGIERS, one of the early aviators to fly a Bleriot monoplane and the first to fly over the Isthmus of Panama.