Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash...
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Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited...
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Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge (24 April 1804 – 15 October 1902) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the...
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Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jr. (February 6, 1836 – February 4, 1924), son of Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, was an officer in the United States Navy. Born...
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town Selfridge High School Selfridge Public School Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan, USA; named for Thomas Selfridge Battery Selfridge, Fort...
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Selfridge Air National Guard Base or Selfridge ANGB (IATA: MTC, ICAO: KMTC, FAA LID: MTC) is an Air National Guard installation located in Harrison Township...
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Orville Wright, and killing the passenger, Signal Corps lieutenant Thomas Selfridge. The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines...
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who later became a world-renowned airplane manufacturer; Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, an official observer from the U.S. Federal government and one of the...
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The Red Wing (or Aerodrome #1) was an early aircraft designed by Thomas Selfridge and built by the Aerial Experiment Association in 1908. It was named...
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and the aircraft flew very well. White Wing was then piloted by Lt Thomas Selfridge at Hammondsport, New York, on 19 May 1908 (becoming the first US Army...
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designed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and flown by First Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge Cygnet Healthcare Golden Cygnet, a racehorse Sea and Sky Cygnet, an...
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had volunteered his help, U.S. Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, officially detailed to Baddeck. Selfridge was assigned to the Aeronautical Division, U...
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his passenger, Army lieutenant Thomas Selfridge. Taylor was among the first to reach the crash. He helped lift Selfridge out of the wreckage, then undid...
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Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London. It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in...
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New York, United States AEA Red Wing, a pioneer aircraft designed by Thomas Selfridge in 1908 and flown by F. W. Baldwin Krasniye Kryl'ya, known in English...
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article: Fatal fall of Wright airship On September 17, Army lieutenant Thomas Selfridge rode along as his passenger, serving as an official observer. A few...
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2024. Falling from a height of 75 feet, Orville Wright and Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge of the Signal Corps were buried in the wreckage of Wright's aeroplane...
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Europe: Arnotts (Ireland) Brown Thomas (Ireland) De Bijenkorf (The Netherlands) Selfridges (United Kingdom) Selfridges Group, along with KaDeWe Group,...
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Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality. 1914...
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2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22, 1909 Ferdinand Ferber Dec 6, 1909...
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Fort Kamehameha (redirect from Battery Selfridge)
31806°N 157.95250°W / 21.31806; -157.95250 (Battery Selfridge). It was named for Lt. Thomas Selfridge, the first person to die in an airplane crash. Battery...
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Orville Wright, and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge. The worst aviation accident in history was the Tenerife airport disaster...
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of Orville Wright's first trip to Fort Myer and also the death of Thomas Selfridge. Hyde has said in press reports that his reproduction is flyable but...
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2, 1899 Percy Pilcher Jul 18, 1905 Daniel J. Maloney Sep 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge Sep 7, 1909 Eugène Lefebvre Sep 22, 1909 Ferdinand Ferber Dec 6, 1909...
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American Aviation Historical Society Journal. 1984. Volumes 29–30. Simmons, Thomas E. 2013. A Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African...
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create a lifting body leading to the Cygnet I. On 6 December 1907, Thomas Selfridge piloted the kite as it was towed into the air behind a motorboat, eventually...
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Bell, Bell, Baldwin, McCurdy, and two Americans, Glenn Curtiss and Thomas Selfridge, formed the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) with the express purpose...
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1908 it became the location of the first aviation fatality, as Lt. Thomas Selfridge was killed when on a demonstration flight with Orville, at an altitude...
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the Selfridge Gate of Arlington National Cemetery on 11 June 2009, donated by the Bakers Creek Memorial Association. The gate is named for Lt. Thomas Selfridge...
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was the second U.S. Army aviation fatality, preceded by Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, who was killed while flying as an observer in a Wright Flyer piloted...
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