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Flying Pioneer extraordinary, Thomas W. Benoist was certainly one of the outstanding greats of early American aviation history. His ambitious accomplishments as a self-taught aviator, instructor, designer, builder, and manufacturer of early historic aircraft are legend. Among the many students of his school were men who later became renowned in aviation. As a modest, energetic man of marked foresight and ability, Benoist will long remain in the memories of those adventuresome young men who truly carved out the very foundation of the air age of today.