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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. | ||