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Aerial Age Weekly

Aero and Hydro

Aero Digest

Aero–France

Aeronautics

Aéronautique

Aeroplane

Aircraft

Air Revue

Aviation News

Aviation Quarterly

The Billboard

Chirp

Country Life

Cross & Cockade

Curtiss Flyleaf

Fliegermagazin

Flight

Flugsport

Flugzeug

Flying

Fly Magazine

Good Housekeeping

Icare

L' Aérophile

L'Air

La Revue Aérienne

L'Auto

Les Ailes

Liberty

Luft–und Raumfahrt

Motor

National Aeronautics

Paris–Match

Santa Fean

Saturday Review of Literature

Scientific American

Service

Sketch

Sports Illustrated

Sportsman Pilot

U.S. Flying News

World Magazine

Zeit Magazin

FILM

Walter Jerven's “Himmelstürmer”—Film Division, Library of Congress

INDEX

Aboukaia, Mlle.,
50

Abramovitch, Wssewolod,
93
,
94

Ackerman, Gordon,
45

Ad Astra,
61
,
63
,
65
,
67

Aerial Age Weekly,
189
,
237
,
242

Aero Club. See
Fédération Aéronautique International

Aero and Hydro,
181
,
207
,
258

Aero Club of America,
145
,
151
,
164
,
165
–66,
168
,
181
,
190
,
206
,
209
,
216
,
236
,
243
–44

Aero Club of Belgium,
15
,
27
,
28

Aero Club of the East,
39

Aero Club of England.
See
Royal Aero Club

Aero Club of France,
1
,
11
,
15
,
26
,
27
,
31
,
34
,
50
,
54
,
106
,
165

Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company,
272

Aeronautical Society of New York,
140
,
142
–43,
205

Aeronautics,
122

Air Force Museum,
138

Air Transport Authority (ATA),
275

Akron Sunday Times,
268

Albert I of Belgium,
32

Albatros aeroplane,
60
,
70
,
72

Albatros Works,
60
,
82

Alcock and Brown,
83

Alphonse XIII,
51

Alvarez, Ramon,
175

American College in Constantinople,
256

American Magazine,
180

American National Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturer's Association,
10

Anatra, Eudocie V.,
92
,
95

Antoinette,
39
,
41
,
104

Arbeiter–Zeitung,
89

Arbuckle, Snake,
241

Armistead, Postmaster George D.,
233

Army of the North and North–East,
55

Army Signal Corps,
253

Arnold, Henry “Hap,”
254

A Romance of Earth and Sky,
233

Astra aeroplane,
50
,
52
,
88

Asburn Field,
187
,
242

Atwood, Harry
169

Audeffred, Helen,
261

Austrian Aero Club,
85

Aviation Sanitaire,
42
,
43

Aviation schools,
10
–11

Aydelotte, Dr. Frank,
257

Bacon, Gertrude,
107
,
129

Baldwin, Thomas S.,
134

Bangs,
258
–59

Barrault, Monsieur,
21

Barrier, Reynaud,
166

Bay of Plenty Times,
119

Beachey, Lincoln,
137
,
160
,
183
,
184
,
187
,
203
,
204
,
230

Beau,
26
,
27

Beaumont, André,
18
,
111
.
See
Jean Conneau

Beatty, George,
169

Bechereau, Louis,
42

Beck, Paul,
120

Beech, A. C.,
183

Beese, Alma Wilhemine,
56
,
64

Beese, Edgar,
56

Beese, Friedrich Karl Richard,
56
,
58
,
63

Beese, Hertha,
56
,
63

Beese, Kurt,
56

Beese, Melli,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
7
,
95
,
96
,
169
,
273
; activity at Johannaisthal,
59
–60,
66
–67; Ad Astra contract,
61
,
63
; aviation and nationalism,
81
,
82
, Autumn Fly Week,
69
–75; Beese–Boutard aeroplanes,
77
,
79
–80,
81
,
82
; birth and background,
56
–57; crash with Thelen,
63
; death of,
85
; failed postwar plans,
83
–84; father's death,
63
–64; interest in aviation,
58
–59; lessons with Hirth,
67
–69; marriage,
79
; National Flying Donation,
75
,
79
,
81
,
82
; open flying school,
76
–77; “unser Flugplats—in Memoriam,”
84
; wartime suffering,
82
–83;Weimar experience,
65
–66; wins license,
69

Behrbohm, Martha,
86
–88

Belmont, August,
199

Belmont Aviation Meet,
166

Bennett, Fred,
263
,
265
–66

Benoist, Tom,
180
,
268

Benoist Aircraft Company,
267

Berg, Mrs. Hart,
10

Berliner Tageblatt,
73

Bernard, Suzanne,
50

Beroul, Mme.,
50

Bigger, Dr. H. F.
207

Billboard,
187
,
188
,
192
,
194
,
208

Bird, Grace.
See
Hewlett, Hilda

Blain, Joe,
125
,
126

Blanchet, Georges,
39

Bland, Lilian L.: building the “Mayfly,”
123
–25; business venture,
127
; Ireland's first powered airplane,
126
; later years,
127
; testing the glider,
124
–25

Blériot aeroplane,
50
,
55
,
105
,
129
,
165

Blondeau, Gustave,
103
,
104
,
105
,
106
,
107
,
111
,
112

Blue Bird,
106

Bluet, William,
168

Bockemüller, Hans,
64

Bollée, Léon,
28

Born, Van den,
106

Boston Herald,
201

Boston Post,
271

Boutard, Charles,
61
,
65
,
70
,
73
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
82
,
83
,
84

Bowen, Lt. Thomas S.,
235
,
236

Brandon, Lottie,
50

Braniff, Alfred,
171

Brégi, M.,
123

Bréquet aeroplane,
50
,
122

Brett, Dallas,
128

Brewer, Griffin,
230

Brindley, Oscar,
228

Bristol Company,
114

Brock, Walter,
187
,
242

Brock aeroplane,
242
,
244

Brooklyn Eagle,
211

Brusquin, Elisabeth,
34
,
35

Bryant Brothers Aerial Show,
263

Bryant, Alys McKey: birth and early years,
262
–63; Canadian memento,
269
; death of,
270
; diving feat,
267
; character,
262
,
265
,
268
; failed plans,
269
; first exhibitions,
265
; on flying,
267
; Goodyear war work,
268
; joins Bryant brothers,
263
; marriage,
265
; on the move,
267
–68; post W.W.I aviation plans,
268
–69; Victoria crash,
265
–66; W.W.II work,
270

Bryant, Frank,
260
,
263

Bryant, Johnny,
263
,
265
–66

Bryant, Henry,
263

Buller, Winnie,
121
–23

Buneau–Varilla, Etienne,
16

Bur, Gerald,
144

Burgess aeroplane,
243
,
244

Burgess Aviation School,
202

Burgess, Bishop,
169

Burleson, Postmaster General Albert S.,
199

Burns, Arthur,
262

Butler, Vera Hedges,
5

Byrd, Richard E.,
98

Cafe Senftleben,
64

Cattaneo, Bartolomeo,
17

Caldwell, Jean Doty,
260

Callan, Lansing,
250

Campbell–Wood, George F.,
145
,
151

Caragiani, Hélene,
54
–55

Carlstrom, Victor,
211
,
216

Carpenter, Mary L.,
139

Carranza, Governor Venostiano,
133

Caspar, Karl,
88

Caudron aeroplane,
50
,
51
,
123
,
242

Caudron School,
123

Central Airlines,
275

Châlons,
1
,
11
,
104
,
105
,
108

Champel aeroplane,
120

Champion, Frank,
187
,
192

Charles, Etta,
249

Charles Lane Gliding School,
128

Chateau, Monsieur,
11
,
13

Chevalier, of l'Ordre de la Santé,
43

Chevrolet, Gaston,
221
,
222

Chicago Air Meet,
154
,
168

Chicago Herald,
219

Chicago Tribune,
188
,
244

Childs, Katherine,
233

Christofferson aeroplane,
267

Christofferson School,
260

Christofferson, Silas,
267

Cicero Field,
181
,
188

Circus Rancy,
36

Citroën, Mrs. André,
43

Clark, Julia,
249
–51,
253
,
260
,
274

Clark, J. N.,
250

Clarendon Hotel,
206

Clément–Bayard,
22
,
23

Cleveland News,
268

Cleveland Plain Dealer,
243

Clifford, Mrs.W. K.,
103

Club Féminin Automobile,
52

College Park Airfield,
255

Columbia University,
259

Commercial Tribunal,
19

Compagnie d'Aviation,
15

Conference of Associated Advertising Clubs,
209

Conneau, Lt. Jean.
See
Beaumont, André

Cook, Abner,
181

Cook, Edith Maud.
See
Kavanagh, Spencer

Copin, Mme.,
50

Corn Show,
165

Coupe Fémina,
19
,
20
,
28
,
31
,
42
,
47
,
49
,
52
,
122

Coupe Franco–Belge Hélène Dutrieu–Mortier,
34

Coupe Jeanne Pallier,
53

Crampton, Thomas,
54

Croix de Guerre,
43
,
256

Cross of St. André,
22

Croute, Mr.,
140

Cuauhtemoc Film Company,
189

“Curiouser and Curiouser”,
258

Curtiss aeroplane,
195
,
196
,
197
,
198
,
199
,
208
–09,
213
,
215
,
217
,
218
,
221
,
224
,
225
,
250
,
251
,
253
,
257
,
263

Curtiss School,
244
,
249
,
250

Curtiss, Glenn,
131
,
133
,
134
,
195
,
211
,
250
,
253
,
272

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