The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures
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SD Not Curtiss but very closely related to my creator, Glenn Curtiss taught him to fly
CS You are very warm indeed (well you would have to be in Darwin)and I like the play on "stable"!
CS You are very warm indeed (well you would have to be in Darwin)and I like the play on "stable"!
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From the clues you've given, it must be Lawrence Sperry.
His M-1 Messenger "landed" on an airship by attaching a hook on it's upper wing to a trapeze suspended from the D-3 Army Air Service airship in the first successful contact between an airplane and an airship while in flight.
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His M-1 Messenger "landed" on an airship by attaching a hook on it's upper wing to a trapeze suspended from the D-3 Army Air Service airship in the first successful contact between an airplane and an airship while in flight.
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SD I am indeed a Sperry Messenger you are in the Chair!
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero.../sperrymes.htm
DGLDG
Ref the British politics:
Lawrence Sperry used Messenger G-EBIJ to campaign for both the Conservatives and the Liberals in 1923 shortly before losing his life in it whilst enroute to Holland 13/12/1923
Here's the book ref
Gyro! : The life and times of Lawrence Sperry
• By: William W Davenport
• Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©1978.
• ISBN: 0684157934
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http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero.../sperrymes.htm
DGLDG
Ref the British politics:
Lawrence Sperry used Messenger G-EBIJ to campaign for both the Conservatives and the Liberals in 1923 shortly before losing his life in it whilst enroute to Holland 13/12/1923
Here's the book ref
Gyro! : The life and times of Lawrence Sperry
• By: William W Davenport
• Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©1978.
• ISBN: 0684157934
W
