Word: lahm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read in the evening Star about an airplane demonstration. He mooched 50 cents from his father and hopped the Washington trolley to Arlington National Cemetery. When he stepped down, he heard a strange sound, looked up and saw Orville Wright steer his Military Flyer above him with Lieut. Frank Lahm, one of the first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane and the Military Flyer...