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Aviator Lincoln Beachey accident in 1913...
Aviator Lincoln Beachey accident in 1913...
Item # 678919
October 15, 1913
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 15, 1913
* Aviator Lincoln Beachey
* "The Man Who Owns The Sky"
* Airplane stunt (loop) attempt disaster
The front page has a two column heading: "Beachey's Death Nemesis Pursues Him As He Again Enters The Flying Game" with subhead and photo. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 14 pages, small library stamps within the masthead, a little irregular along the spine, generally very nice.
wikipedia notes: Beachey went into the real estate business for a time, until Curtiss reluctantly agreed to build a stunt plane powerful enough to do the inside loop. Beachey returned and, on October 7, took the plane up in the air at Hammondsport, New York. On its first flight, either a downdraft or a loss of speed following a turn caused the plane to dip momentarily. One wing clipped the ridgepole of a tent on the field and the plane then swept two young women and two naval officers off the roof of a nearby hangar, from where they had been watching the flight, contrary to Beachey's wishes. One woman was killed and the others injured as a result of the fall, a distance of about 10 feet (3 m). Beachey's plane crashed in a nearby field but he managed to walk away from the wreckage with minor injuries.
Category: The 20th Century
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