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Shown here taking off from West Executive Avenue in 1910, pioneer aviator Claude Graham-White was the first to land a lighter-than-air craft on a street in any city in the world. He had come to lunch with the Secretary of War, and talk about the defense advantages of aeroplanes.
Shown here taking off from West Executive Avenue in 1910, pioneer aviator Claude Graham-White was the first to land a lighter-than-air craft on a street in any city in the world. He had come to lunch with the Secretary of War, and talk about the defense advantages of aeroplanes.