Before Amelia (52 page)

Ovington, Earle,
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OX–5 Club,
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Pacific Aero Club,
261

Page, Phil,
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Pallier, Jeanne,
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–53,
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Palmer, Mrs.,
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“Parcival,”
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Parsons, Cleve,
261

Parsons, Geneve Shaffer,
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Partridge–Keller Aeroplane Company,
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Paulhan, Louis,
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,
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Paulus, Käthchen,
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Peary, Rear Admiral Robert E.,
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Peck, Paul,
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Pégoud, Adolphe,
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Peirce, Dorothy Rice,
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–59

Peirce, Waldo,
258

Peltier, Thérèse,
15

Perreyon, Edmund,
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Philadelphia Museum of Art,
257

Philipoff, Boris,
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Phillips, Gertrude,
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Picard, Gaétane,
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Pickens, William,
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Pickles, Sydney,
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Pietschker, Alfred,
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Pike, Edgar L.,
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Plagino, Hélene de,
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Poilu,
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Poincaré, President Raymond,
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Poincaré, Mme. Raymond,
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Potlach,
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Portal of Folded Wings,
178

Poulain, Gabriel,
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Pratt, W. T.,
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Premier Grand–Prix,
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Prentice, Dorothy,
127

Protestant Orphan's Home,
236

Pulitzer, Ralph,
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–17

Purdue University,
275

Queen City Auto Club,
183

Quimby, Harriet,
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; birth and family background,
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–46; cause of accident disputed,
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–62; character,
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–52; crossing the Channel,
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–59; fatal accident,
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; Harvard–Boston Meet,
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–61; journalism career,
146
–48; last article,
162
; learning to fly,
148
–51; meets Aero Club requirements,
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,
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; Moisant International Aviators,
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; in Mexico,
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–56; Nassau Boulevard Meet,
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–55; a new Blériot,
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–160; the New Jersey Fair,
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; preparations for Channel flight,
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–57; press coverage of Channel flight,
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–53; the Richmond Fair,
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–54; women and aviation,
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–53,
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Quimby, Kitty,
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Quimby, Ursula,
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Quimby, William,
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,
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Rachevsky, Vladimir,
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Rader, Lt. Ira A.,
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Raiche, Bessica,
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; Aeronautical Society honors,
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–43; birth of,
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, builds aeroplane,
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–42; business ventures,
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; death of,
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; early years,
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–40; first flights,
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–42; life in California,
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–44; marries Frank Raiche,
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; medical school graduate,
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,
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Raiche, Francois,
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Raiche, Katherine,
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Raiche, Ruth,
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Rancy, Alphonse,
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Red Cross,
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–98,
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Red Cross Ambulance Service,
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Renaux, Eugène,
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Reichelt, Hermann,
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Resta, Dario,
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Reymond, Senator Emile,
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Richer, Henri,
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Richer, Marthe,
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Richey, Helen,
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Richmond County Agricultural Fair,
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Rinehart, Howard,
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Rinehart, Robert,
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Robinson, Wilbert,
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Rockefeller Foundation,

Rockefeller, John D.,
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Rocky Mountain News,
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Rodgers, Calbraith “Cal”,
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Rodman Wanamaker trophy,
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Roe, Alliot V.,
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Roehrig,
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Rohlf, Roland,
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Roosevelt, President Theodore,
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Rougier, Henri,
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Royal Academy of Free Art,
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Royal Aero Club of England,
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Royal Aircraft Factory,
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Royal Air Force,
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Royal Irish Constabulary,
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Rumpler Company,
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Rumpler, Edmund,
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Rumpler–Taube,
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Rumpler Works,
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Russian Aviation Association Flying School,
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Salinas, Lt. Gustave,
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Samsonova, Helena P.,
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Sandusky Register,
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San Antonio Express,
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San Antonio Light,
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San Francisco Call,
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San Francisco Chronicle,
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Santa Fean Magazine,
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Santos–Dumont, Alberto,
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Saturday Review of Literature,
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Saulnier, M.,
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“Saved by the Dove,”
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Schendel, Georg,
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Schwandt, Paul,
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Schroeder, Rudolph “Shorty,”
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Scientific Aeroplane Company School,
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Scientific American,
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Scott, Blanche Stuart,
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; birth and background,
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–32; cross country trip,
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–33; the Curtiss experience,
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–34; dare devil days,
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–37; death of,
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; early years
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–32; learns the Baldwin machine,
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–35; marriages,
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; personality,
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–35; writing career,
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Scott, John C. S.,
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Seattle Daily Times,
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Seconde Grande Semaine,
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Sedlmayr, Gerhard,
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Seguin, Louis,
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Seidell, Florence,
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Service de Santé de l'Air,
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Shakhovskaya, Eugenie,
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Shank, Robert,
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Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.,
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Siemen, Werner von,
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Sims, Hal,
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Sixth Annual Los Angeles Air Fair,
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Sjöborg, Tora,
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Slyusarenko, Vladimir V.,
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Smith, Art,
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Smith, Floyd,
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Smith, Hilda,
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Smith, Snowdon,
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Smythe, General,
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Snyder, O. H. “Bud,”
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Sociètè de l'Ecole Nationale d'Aviation,
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Sommer aeroplane,
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Sommer, Roger,
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Sopwith, T.O.M.,
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Southern Cross Airways Ltd.,
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South Western Star,
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Sowle, Dr. C. J. Sowle,
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Spencer Brothers, Ltd.,
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Sperry, Elmer,
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Sperry, Lawrence,
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Spitzberg, E.,
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Sports Illustrated,
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Sportsman Pilot,
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Standard School of Aviation,
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Staten Islander,
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State Register,
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Steinschneider, Lilly,
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Stella Society,
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Stephens, James S.,
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Stevens, A. Leo,
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Stinson, Eddie,
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Stinson, Edward,
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Stinson, Emma Beaver,
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Stinson, Jack,
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Stinson, Katherine,
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; birth and background,
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–80; begins flying career,
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–84,
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–26; California night flights,
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; Canadian flights,
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–92,
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–99; Chicago to New York flight,
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–97; China flights,
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–94; death of
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; exhibition life,
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; family corporation,
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; first night flight,
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–87; flies U.S. Mail,
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–97,
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; Japan flights,
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–93; learning to fly,
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–81, licensed pilot,
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; long distance flight,
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–96; Orient tour preparations,
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; overseas duty,
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–200; personality,
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; Red Cross flight,
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–98; a reporter's impressions,
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–86; suffrage views,
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; tours and exhibitions in 1914,
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–87; in 1915,
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–90; in 1916,
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–92; on women in flying,
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; years after W.W.I,
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Stinson, Marjorie,
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; Aviation Reserve Corps appointment,
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; birth and background,
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–26; character,
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; death of,
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; debut at Kansas City,
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; disagrees with Earhart on women's competition,
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–46; early appearances,
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–32; first interest in aviation,
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; first school graduates,
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–36; flying for the mail and movies,
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; flying Santa,
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; later activities,
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–48; lessons at the Wright School,
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–30; luck runs out,
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–43; machines and responsibilities,
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; method of teaching,
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–38; memorable students,
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–40,
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; search for a school site,
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; school's new location,
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–37, start of the flying school,
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; Stinson School closes,
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; teaching the Texas Escadrille to fly,
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–44; the Tyler Fair,
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–45; war work,
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; on women in aviation,
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