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<P><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">IT IS MIND BOGGLING TO IMAGINE ALL THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN AVIATION.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Thanks to Hal Austin, we have a group of photographs from the early days.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Here are a few good ol' pictures from yesteryear.. .</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Albin K. Longren airplane</SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Photo of Albin K. Longren's first airplane</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Date: 1911</P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">1912</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Photo of Phillip Billard sitting in Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">which was built in 1911</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: Between 1916 and 1920</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Photo of Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane surrounded by a group of</SPAN><SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: navy">unidentified people</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: Between 1911 and 1916</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Albin Longren's first airplane</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">View of Albin Longren's first airplane in </SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(253,23,0); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Winfield, Ks.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: November 25, 19 11</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><IMG src="cid:6.2079222535@web53204.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width=1000 height=702><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Cessna airplane</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt"> <BR></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Photo of "Silver Wings," a Cessna monoplane in flight.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: 1911</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt"> Clyde Cessna</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">A view of aviation pioneer Clyde Vernon Cessna, 1879-1954, founder of Cessna</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Aircraft Company of Wichita , Kansas , and spectators with his aeroplane at Burdett</SPAN><SPAN>, <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Kansas .</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: 1914</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><IMG src="cid:8.2079222535@web53204.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width=800 height=518><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><BR>Clyde</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Cessna</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)"><BR>Clyde Cessna & his 1916 airplane; The first built in Wichita , KS ; Photo taken at Beaver,</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P>OK with part of the Beaver Boosters. <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: 1916</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt"> Clyde Cessna </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: Unknown</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Flying machine, Goodland , Kansas</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">This photograph shows the Goodland flying machine, a forerunner of the helicopter,</SPAN><SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: navy">designed and patented by William Purvis <BR>and Charles Wilson of Goodland , Kansas . Purvis</SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: navy">and Wilson built the ship about 1910. The engine was apparently too small <BR>and the</SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: navy">machine never flew.</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">Date: Around 1910</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Laird Swallows</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">A view of four new Laird Swallow airplanes parked in a field at 29th and Hillside</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Streets in Wichita , Kansas .. Designed by aviation pioneer Emil Matthew "Matty" Laird,</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">1886-1982, the first Swallow was built for the commercial market in 1920 by Laird</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Swallow Manufacturing Company of Wichita .</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: Between 1920 and 1925</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Longren's airplane company</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Albin K. Longren's airplane plant Topeka , Kansas .</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Date: Between 1910 and 1920</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><IMG src="cid:13.2079222535@web53204.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width=1000 height=577><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><BR>Longren's biplane</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">Albin K. Longren's biplane Date: Between 1910 and 1920</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><IMG src="cid:14.2079222535@web53204.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width=800 height=990><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125); FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><BR>Walter Herschel Beech</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Walter H. Beech, 1891-1951, (left) pilot and President of Beech Aircraft Corporation,</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">and Brice H. Goldsborough, of the Pioneer Instrument Corp. and navigator, standing by</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">a Travel Air built by Beech. They demonstrated the practicability of "blind flight" and</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour.</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"> Date: 1926</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Walter Herschel Beech and Olive Ann Beech</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">Walter Herschel Beech, 1891-1951, and Olive Ann Beech, 1903-1993, viewing</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,19,125)">World War II aircraft production lines at the Beechcraft Plant I in Wichita , Kansas .</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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