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From the Flying Pioneers Biographies of Harold E. Morehouse

back to Staten Island, the starting point. The event was conducted under the auspices of the Aeronautical Society. It was an extremely cold and very windy day and the entire journey was a struggle against the elements. Luckey was so numb with cold as he landed he had to be assisted from his plane. For a new pilot, his win was the surprise of the season.

After completing the 1913 exhibition season Luckey evidently spent some time that winter at Hammondsport where he developed the sport of "snowboating". When the lake was solidly frozen over and covered with 2 feet of snow he discovered a hydro or flying boat could be operated off the snow equally as well as from the water. He practiced the sport for some time that winter and carried many passengers.

During the early summer of 1914 Luckey resumed flying for Curtiss on the Exhibition Team and started off by a return date of Kingston, Ontario, Canada on May 29th. Throughout the early summer months he toured the North Atlantic states, and was at Rochester, New York the last week of August. The first week of November he flew at the Velodrome Race Track, Buffalo, New York.

On April 26th, 1915 Luckey circled Sing Sing Prison at Ossining, New York several times for the benefit of the prisoners. That year he toured the mid-west at fairs and carnivals, and in July was in a hospital at Erlanger, Kentucky, where he was engaged to fly an exhibition, with typhoid pneumonia. Jack McGee took his place and filled the date. After his recovery Luckey took off from the Erlanger Race Track and flew to Covington, Kentucky for an engagement there.

On September 6th he was engaged to fly at Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada where he had a small, miserable area from which to get in and out, which necessitated taking off from a race track enclosure, out over a railroad embankment and under a telegraph line. Against the pleadings of his mechanics he was determined to fill the date. His first flight and landing was successful, but on the second and last flight of the day his tail plane struck the embankment as he was coming in to land, throwing him out while still airborne. he was picked up unconscious and rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal where it was found he had a broken back. He remained in critical condition until he passed away on

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