Front:
FAMOUS FIRSTS
Ai da de Acosta
First Woman Airship Pilot
IN AVIATION
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R. G. "Bob" Fowler
First Cross Country, West-East Pilot
Wreck of Bob Fowler's Plane
The transcontinental Wright plane
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Walter Brookins.
First Pupil of the Wright Brothers
Back:
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Aida de Acosta flew Santos-Dumont's airship #9 over
Paris, June 29, 1903. Santos-Dumont followed on his
bicycle.
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Robert Fowler, left California Oct. 25, 1911 and de-
spite plane crashes and delays "did not quit" but com-
pleted his cross-country flight at Jacksonville, Florida,
Feb. 8, 1912. Hol der of many "firsts in aviation" he
served as president of the Early Birds in 1961.
HONOR PIONEERS - 22-A
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Starting from San Francisco Bob Fowler crashed in his
30 h.p. mod. B Wright trying to cross the Sierras, at
Colfax. The plane was rebuilt and he started again
from Southern California. Seeing this photo he wrote,
"a good landing, I was able to walk away".
Published by Roy Votaw
HONOR PIONEERS - 22-C
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Walter Brookins was a pilot with the Wright brothers.
He was the first U.S.pilot to set a world's altitude re-
cord (1911). He was president of the Early Birds of
Aviation, 1937.
HONOR PIONEERS - 22-D
