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    John Bevins Moisant (April 25, 1868 – December 31, 1910) was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, flight instructor, businessman, and revolutionary...
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  • Moisant may refer to: John Bevins Moisant (1868–1910), American aviation pioneer and brother of Matilde Matilde E. Moisant (1878–1964), American aviation...
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    Airport) was too small. The airport was originally named Moisant Field after daredevil aviator John Moisant, who died in 1910 in an airplane crash on agricultural...
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  • American aviator John Moisant. Fifi accompanied Moisant during the first aeroplane flight from London-to-Paris on 23 August 1910. After Moisant was killed at...
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    races and the thrill of flight. John B. Moisant (1868–1910), who designed and built the first metal plane. Matilde Moisant was his sister. Note: this is...
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    at the Moisant Aviation School. Alfred Moisant, John Moisant's brother, was her flight instructor at the Moisant Aviation School. On August 1, 1911, she...
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    aviation pioneer John Moisant died there in a plane accident while preparing for a competition. Shortly thereafter, Harahan dedicated Moisant Park on Hickory...
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    Canadians. Her siblings include George, John, Annie M., Alfred Moisant, Louise J. and Eunice Moisant.[citation needed] John and Alfred were also aviators. In...
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    philanthropist (b. 1844) 1910 – Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884) 1910 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868) 1921 – Boies Penrose, American...
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    William Carpenter Lambert Charles Lindbergh Didier Masson Marie Meyer John Moisant Clyde Pangborn Louis Paulhan Adolphe Pégoud Wiley Post Harriet Quimby...
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    aviators included Wilbur Wright, Alfred Leblanc, Émile Aubrun, René Simon, John Moisant and Claude Grahame-White. The show awarded prize money of US$72,300 (equivalent...
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  • Curtiss, who won the Gordon Bennett Trophy competition. This show inspired John Moisant. 1910: Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field from January...
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    17, 1910 Ralph Johnstone Dec 31, 1910 Archibald Hoxsey Dec 31, 1910 John Moisant Jan 9, 1911 Edvard Rusjan Mar 28, 1911 Giuseppe Cei May 6, 1911 René...
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    character in scenes drawing upon his real-life tragic flight over the Alps in John Berger's novel G. (1972), awarded the Booker Prize in 1972. Monument to Jorge...
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    Johnny Livingston Mike Mangold Paul Mantz Jim Mollison John Moisant Blanche Noyes Adolphe Pégoud John Cyril Porte C. W. A. Scott Lyle Shelton Thomas Sopwith...
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    Chronology".Flight Log 1908 Camp d'Auvours, Le Mans, France.Retrieved 25 July 2018 John Blake."A Brief History Of The Royal Aero Club." The Royal Aero Club of the...
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    Orleans International Airport was originally named Moisant Field after daredevil aviator John Moisant, who died in 1910 in an airplane crash on agricultural...
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    photography and aviation pioneer; lived in Manteno and is buried there John Moisant, aviator, lived in Manteno Charles A. Spring, son of Samuel Spring; helped...
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    Championships in 1910. Sopwith became interested in flying after seeing John Moisant flying the first cross-Channel passenger flight. His first flight was...
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    17, 1910 Ralph Johnstone Dec 31, 1910 Archibald Hoxsey Dec 31, 1910 John Moisant Jan 9, 1911 Edvard Rusjan Mar 28, 1911 Giuseppe Cei May 6, 1911 René...
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    history Albrecht Berblinger Abbas Ibn Firnas George Cayley Jean-Marie Le Bris John Joseph Montgomery German inventors and discoverers "Otto Lilienthal." Encyclopedia...
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    than circling the harbor and landing at the Norfolk Navy Yard as planned. John Barry Ryan, head of the U.S. Aeronautical Reserve, offered $500 to build...
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    John Verrept (12 April 1887 – 17 April 1912) was a Belgian aviation pioneer. He was world altitude record holder with two passengers. He was the first...
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    17, 1910 Ralph Johnstone Dec 31, 1910 Archibald Hoxsey Dec 31, 1910 John Moisant Jan 9, 1911 Edvard Rusjan Mar 28, 1911 Giuseppe Cei May 6, 1911 René...
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    John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in...
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    1930, born in Watseka in 1893 John Moisant, pioneering aviator and aeronautical engineer, born in L'Erable in 1868 John S. Darrough, recipient of the...
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  • December – American pioneers John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey are killed on this day within hours of each other. Moisant at New Orleans in the morning...
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    17, 1910 Ralph Johnstone Dec 31, 1910 Archibald Hoxsey Dec 31, 1910 John Moisant Jan 9, 1911 Edvard Rusjan Mar 28, 1911 Giuseppe Cei May 6, 1911 René...
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    he took his seat. Before starting he took off his hat and put on a cap." John H. Zobel, "Stardust Falling: Arch Hoxsey and Ralph Johnstone". In AAHS Journal...
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    17, 1910 Ralph Johnstone Dec 31, 1910 Archibald Hoxsey Dec 31, 1910 John Moisant Jan 9, 1911 Edvard Rusjan Mar 28, 1911 Giuseppe Cei May 6, 1911 René...
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