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...story that Woodrow Wilson was working on neutrality papers in the Oval Office when he heard what he thought was a housefly and jumped up to get a swatter. Wilson then looked out the window and saw a biplane zooming down on the White House, with Lincoln Beachey perched at the controls. Beachey, then considered the best pilot in America, buzzed the White House again and again and flew stunts around the Washington Monument, to the awe of Wilson. Today the airspace above the White House is designated P-56 by the FAA--the P standing for "prohibited area...
...square-chinned, 46-year-old Lawrence Doane Bell of Bell Aircraft, the Airacobra is a thesis in an aeronautics course which began 28 years ago. He left high school in Santa Monica, Calif, to become a mechanic for famed Lincoln Beachey-the "greatest flier" in many a pilot's lexicon-and for his own big brother, Grover Bell. Next year death came to Grover Bell in a crash, and discouraged Larry left the game. But by the time Beachey was killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm...
...years rolled by Showman Gates built up a substantial troupe. Names like Silas Christofferson, Lincoln Beachey, Art Smith, Katherine Stinson appeared on his flamboyant handbills. In early days he netted perhaps $2,000 merely for a 10-minute flight above the fair grounds, and not always did his patched-up planes stay up ten minutes. Later it was stunting, wing-walking, plane-to-plane jumps, standing on looping planes, that brought in gate receipts...
...chief attractions will be Lincoln Beachey, who was the best performer at last year's meet. Last August Beachey established an altitude record at Chicago of 11,474 feet, which has only recently been broken by a foreign aviator. The other aviators who have sent their contracts are Hugh A. Robinson, William Hoff, Charles F. Walsh, Charles Witmer, Beckwith Havens, George W. Beatty and Frank Coffyn...
...following day, Beachey took nearly all the prizes and accomplished one of the most remarkable feats that has been done at any meet this year, by beating, in his Curtis biplane, one of the fastest Bleriot monoplanes, over the Boston Light course. Ovington took second place. A wind of 28 miles an hour was blowing, and on account of this Beachey was the only aviator willing to risk the flight to the Blue Hills observatory and back for the $1,000 prize. He encountered many difficulties on the trip but accomplished it safely in 20 minutes, 22 seconds...