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-3- 9. Anthony Fokker starts designing airplanes. 10. Earle Ovington becomes first American airmail pilot (1911); Harriet Quimby, first American woman pilot (1911); 11. Mathilde Moisant, second American woman pilot, flies from Paris to London. 12. Calbraith Rodgers flies from coast to coast (1911). 13. Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske invents torpedo plane (1912). 14. Frank Coffyn, one of leading "Early Birds", flies under Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, takes first successful moving pictures from air (1912). 15. Radio installed in airplane (1912). 16. Ruth Law, American Aviatrix, breaks many records. 17. Katherine Stinson starts flying school (1912). 18. Igor Ivan Sikorsky builds multi-motored airplane (1913). III FIRST WORLD WAR - Airplane becomes a weapon of destruction. Full page picture facing editorial text (including statement by key person representative of era) covering great advances in military aviation (including U.S. industries' joint development of Liberty engine) and role of airplane in World War I combat operations. Building of thousands of airplanes during the war in U.S. (about 4,000 planes), Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, etc. A. Air battles - gallantry in the air, chivalrous aces of first World War. Germans: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Lieut. Max Immelmann, Major General Ernst Udet, Herman Goering. Americans: Rickenbaker, Elliott White Springs, Quentin Roosevelt, etc. British: Capt. Albert Ball, etc. French: Captains Rene Fonck, Georges Guynemer, etc. Canadian: William Bishop, etc. 1. Military aviation industries created by U.S. and other belligerent powers as struggle for air supremacy gains impetus. 2. Technical developments in the aeronautics field during First World War. 3. First U.S. Airmail Service started for war correspondence in 1918 between Washington D.C. and New York City. IV ROMANCE IN THE AIR - Flights across the oceans. Full page picture facing editorial text (including statement by key person representative of era) portraying dramatic long-distance flights in which daring pilots made history; end of backyard airplane building era; founding of airplane manufacturing companies in U.S. and abroad; American public's reluctance to learn from war experience; advance in research in European countries. A. Crossing of oceans. 1. Albert Cushing Read and companions fly from Newfoundland via Azores to Lisbon is seaplane (1919). Walter Hinton and companions fly seaplane across Atlantic Ocean. First successful transatlantic non-stop airplane (two-engine) flight by Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whittenbrown (1919). Captain Sir Ross Smith flies from England to Australia. First dirigible crosses Atlantic under Major G. H. Scott (English 1919). 2. Schneider Trophy Races (1913-1931) and their influence on modern aircraft design. 3. James Knight flies first transcontinental airmail (1921). John A. Macready makes first U.S. coast-to-coast non-stop flight (1923). Juan de la Cierva flies first autogiro (Spain 1923). 4. First round-the-world flight by U.S. Army's Colonel Lowell H. Smith in Douglas cruiser biplane "Chicago".