Before Amelia (51 page)

Kiepert, Rudolph,
61

King of Italy Cup,
4
,
28

Kiser, Daniel,
231

Knight, Alfred,
113

Knowles, John,
102

Koechlin, Jean Paul,
46
,
105

Konig, Benno,
64

Krohn, Baron von,
53

Kruckman, Arnold,
4

Kuznetsov, Pavel A.,
100

Kuzetsova, D. I.,
100

Lablon, Hubert,
14

Ladoux, Captain,
53

L'Aérophile,
8
,
51
,
54

Lafont, Bernard,
40

Layfayette Escadrille,
218

Lafitte, Pierre,
19

Láglerová, Bozena,
85
–86

Laird, Emil Matty,
192
,
242

Lambert, Albert,
234

Lambert, Charles, Comte de,
13

Land's End to John O'Groats Trial,
103

La Petite République,
13

Laroche, Andre de,
9
,
18

Laroche, Raymonde de,
1
,
2
,
3
,
42
,
55
,
90
,
92
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95
,
109
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129
,
245
,
273
; accident at Rheims,
16
–18; birth and background,
6
–9; breaks women's altitude record,
21
; in Budapest,
16
; car crash,
19
; changes aeroplanes,
20
; court case,
19
; critical comment,
18
; fatal crash,
21
; flying lessons and spills,
11
–14; Heliopolis debut,
14
; licensed,
14
; in Rouen,
16
; in Russia,
15
–16; trains and wins Coupe Femina,
20
,
49
,
52

Latham, Hubert,
14
,
16
,
17
,
39
,
40
,
104
,
126
,
129

Law, Ruth,
7
,
21
,
179
,
191
,
195
,
197
,
245
,
275
; accused of being spy,
220
; Aero Club license,
201
,
206
; altitude record,
205
,
209
; appearances in 1913,
207
; in 1914,
207
–08; in 1915,
208
; in 1916,
209
; attraction of flying,
201
,
202
; birth and early years,
202
; circus antics,
208
–09; close calls,
209
–10; death of,
224
; debuts with Beachey,
203
–04; European trip,
217
–18; flies in Florida,
206
–07; flying circus,
221
–23; honors galore,
216
; lighting Miss Liberty,
216
–17; long distance flight,
211
–16; maturing as a flyer,
211
; new machine and stunts,
221
–23; official pilot,
205
–06; personality,
201
,
204
–05,
214
,
215
–16; press comments on distance flight,
214
,
215
; retirement years,
223
–24; trip to the Orient,
220
–21; wartime activities,
218
–20; on women and aviation,
204
–05,
215
–16

Law, Rodman,
202
,
27
,
223

Leavitt, Dorothy,
129

Lebedev, Vladimir,
92

Leblon, Hubert,
14

Legion of Honor,
54

Le Matin,
75

Le Monde,
18

Le Petit Journal,
27

Leopold, King of Belgium,
22

Les Aviatrices,
55

Leslie's Illustrated Weekly,
146
,
147
,
148
,
149
,
156
,
159

“L'Etoile Filante” (“Shooting Star”),
38
,
39

Letort, Léon,
96
–97

Libby, Samuel A.,
204

Liberty Loan Drive,
218

Liberty Magazine,
237
–38

Library of Congress,
247

Liljestrand, Maximillian T.,
180
,
181
,
188

Lindburgh, Charles,
223
,
246

Lindpainterner, Jan,
16
,
17

Lingner, Karl A.,
76

L'Intransigeant,
23

Lipsner, Capt. Benjamin,
199

Loening, Grover,
243

London Mirror,
156
,
157
,
159

London Times,
16
–17

Long, George,
248

Lowenstein–Wertheim, Princess,
129

Ludendorff, Erich,
53

Ludwig, Adolph,
62
,
63
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
72
,
75

Lynn Item,
224

MacKenzie, Herbert,
236

Madame la Vertu,
54
.
See also
Richer, Marthe

Madera, Florencia,
55

Madero, President Francisco,
155
,
156
,
171

Maeterlinck, Maurice,
106

Manissero, Romulo,
28

Marchal, Sub–Lt. A.,
213

Mars, J. C. “Bud,”
183

Martin aeroplane,
262
,
271

Martin, James V.,
109
,
127
,
270
,
271

Martin, Mrs. James V.
See also
Irvine, Lily

Martin, Glenn,
132
,
161
,
257
,
262

Marvingt, Eugène,
34
,
35
,
36

Marvingt, Felix,
34
–35,
36
,
43

Marvingt, Marie,
3
,
14
,
15
,
28
,
46
,
52
,
55
,
129
; Aurillac years,
34
–35;
Aviation Sanitaire,
42
–43; birth of,
34
; death of
45
; flying lessons with Latham,
38
,
40
–41; flying mishaps,
41
–42; intoxication with flight,
39
–40; healthy regimen,
44
; honors and awards,
43
–44; licensed balloonist,
37
; life in Metz,
35
; life in Nancy,
35
–36; North African activities,
43
; North Sea balloon trip,
37
–39; Premier Grand Prix,
39
; sense of humor,
45
; sports enthusiast,
36
–37; wartime activities,
42
–43

“Mayfly,”
124
–25,
126
,
127

Mayland, George,
208

Maxim, Hudson,
138

McAdoo, Secretary William,
198

McAlser, J. A.,
213

McCurdy, Helen,
271

McCutchen, John T.,
244

Médaille d'Or,
31
,
39

Médaille de l'Aviation,
32

Medlar, Elizabeth Curtis,
138

Medlar, Faith C. M.D.
See
Raiche, Bessica

Medlar, James
138

Meeze, Edith,
128

Melli Beese Flying School,
76
–77

Mexican Army Aviation School,
171

Military Carnival,
176

Military Naval and Aviation Tournament,
190
,
209

Miller, Barbara,
261

Miller, Bernetta Adams,
3
,
201
; birth and early years,
251
; character,
256
–57; College Park exhibition,
253
; later years in education,
256
–57; learns at Moisant School,
252
; licensed pilot,
252
–53; tries for altitude record,
255
, views on aviation,
255
–56; war service,
256

Mitchel, Mayor John P.,
216

Miller Brothers Miniature Circus,
176

Millsap College,
226

Miss Livermore's School,
202

Miss Nichol's School for Girls,
132

Mix, Art,
187

Mohring, Charlotte,
86

Moisant aeroplane,
3
,
171
,
173
,
175
,
252
,
253
–54

Moisant, Alfred,
3
,
148
,
155
,
156
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
167
,
170
,
171
,
173
,
176

Moisant, Annie,
164
,
165
,
177

Moisant, Edward,
164

Moisant, George,
164

Moisant International Aviators,
154
,
155
,
166

Moisant, John,
148
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
167
,
173
,
178

Moisant, Josephine Fortier,
164

Moisant, Louise,
164
–65,
175
,
176
,
177
,
178

Moisant, Matilde,
5
,
6
,
20
,
29
,
134
,
143
,
148
,
154
,
155
,
156
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160
,
230
, birth of,
164
–65; character,
168
; early years,
164
; flying in Mexico,
171
–73; later years,
177
–78; Moisants take up aviation,
165
–167; Nassau Boulevard Meet,
169
; on fear of flying,
170
; Sunday Blue Laws,
169
–70; takes lessons,
167
–68,
170

71
; time to quit,
176
–77; touring the South,
173
–76

Moisant, Medore,
164
,
165

Moisant Aviation School,
148
,
149
,
153
,
162
,
170
,
252

Moncrieff, John,
113

Montalent, Comte de,
121
–22

Moore, Denise,
50
,
51

Morane aeroplane,
81
,
96
,
97

Moret, Molly.
See
Golanchikova, Lyubov

Morning Telegraph,
30
,
155

Morosco, Oliver,
98

Morris, H. T.,
117

Mortier, Pierre,
34

Mossner, Robert von,
65
,
66

Motor,
84

Mürau, Georg,
86

Murray, Stella,
5

“My Balloon Trip across the North Sea,”
43
–44

Nashville Banner,
231
–32

Nashville Equal Suffrage League,
185
,
231

Nassau Boulevard Meet,
153

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
276

National Aeronautic Association,
245

National Flying Donation,
75
,
79
,
81
,
82

National Guard,
240
–41,
268

Naumov,
92

Navy Bureau of Aeronautics,
246

Nesterow, Lt. Peter Nicholaivitch,
91

Newbre, Ralph,
260

New Brunswick Times,
260

New Orleans Times Picayune,
173

Newton, Maurice,
199

New York American,
4

New York Aeronautical Society,
140

New York Evening Mail,
151

New York Evening Sun,
170
,
253

New York Evening World,
128
,
152
,
217

New York Globe,
142

New York Herald,
255

New York Times,
6
,
32
,
74
,
162
,
166
,
167
,
199
,
223

New York Tribune,
69
,
134

Nicholas II, Czar,
15
,
16
,
94

Niel, Albert,
46

Niel, Marthe,
14
,
15
,
28
,
46
,
53
–54

“Night Witches,”
100

Northcliffe, Lord,
223

Northern Flying Competition,
82

Oertz Yacht Works,
80

Office d'Aviation,
19

Olieslagers, Jan,
17

Oliver, Charles,
202
,
203
,
223
,
224

O'Neill, Lord,
126

Omnia Works,
112
,
113
,
114
,
115
,
116
,
117

Orange County Hospital,
144

Orange County Medical Association,
143

Orca, Francisco Montes de,
241

Otero, Miguel A., Jr.,
200
,
247
–48

“Our Flying Men,”
116