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    Calbraith Perry Rodgers Jr. (January 12, 1879 – April 3, 1912) was an American aviation pioneer. He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across...
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    Smith Rodgers (1809–1891) Jane Hazard Perry (1819–1881), who married John Hone (1819–1891) and Frederic de Peyster (1796–1882) Matthew Calbraith Perry (1821–1873)...
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    Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812...
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    Hazard Perry and Matthew Calbraith Perry. Perry was born on December 4, 1761, in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of the Hon. James Freeman Perry (1732–1813)...
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  • Calbraith Dorrance Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American aviator Matthew Calbraith Perry, American naval flag officer Matthew Calbraith Butler, American military...
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    less than 30 days from start to finish. Calbraith Perry Rodgers, grandnephew of naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry and an avid yachtsman and motorcycle racer...
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    Admirals in the United States Navy. American Civil War portal Calbraith Perry Rodgers Bibliography of Naval history of the American Civil War Quanchi...
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  • people Buck Rodgers (born 1938), American baseball player and manager Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912), American aviation pioneer Carolyn Rodgers (born 1940)...
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    time performing aerial demonstrations in Ohio with his cousin, Calbraith Perry Rodgers. On their way back to Dayton from Springfield, having just finalized...
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  • multi-stop flight across the United States was made in 1911 by Calbraith Perry Rodgers in an attempt to win the Hearst prize offered by publisher William...
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    and Matthew Calbraith Perry. His family background all but ensured that both C.R.P. Rodgers and his younger brother George Washington Rodgers Jr., would...
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    mechanic in the Wright Company after it was formed in 1909. When Calbraith Perry Rodgers made his trip from Long Island to California in 1911 in his newly...
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    World War II, and became the first head of the U.S. Air Force; Calbraith Perry Rodgers, who made the first coast-to-coast flight in 1911 (with many stops...
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    November 1, 1911. First transcontinental flight across North America: Calbraith Perry Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz Wright Model EX biplane through a seventy-plus-stop...
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    Airport/Daugherty Field. The first transcontinental flight, a biplane flown by Calbraith Perry Rodgers, landed in 1911 on Long Beach's sandy beach. From 1911 until the...
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    Fokker F-10 Bazaar, Kansas, United States structure failure of wing Calbraith Perry Rodgers United States 1912 Aviator, made the first transcontinental airplane...
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    wearing a Norfolk jacket, Long Island, New York, 1910. Aviator Calbraith Perry Rodgers, 1911, in a casual wool cap. Irish immigrant in Detroit, Michigan...
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  • Ridley (2004) Cliff Robertson (2006) S. Harry Robertson III (2011) Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1964) Will Rogers (1977) Robert A. Rushworth (1990) Burt Rutan...
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    Hazard Perry (August 23, 1785 – August 23, 1819) was a United States Navy officer from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family...
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    Quimby to advertise the new grape soda, Vin Fiz, after the death of Calbraith Perry Rodgers in April 1912. She appeared in adverts in her distinctive purple...
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     508. OCLC 197401914. Url Griffis, William Elliot (1887). Matthew Calbraith Perry: a typical American naval officer. Cupples and Hurd, Boston. p. 459...
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    engineer on Solar Impulse Willard Rockwell – formed Rockwell Intl. Calbraith Perry Rodgers – made the first transcontinental flight James W. Brown – Crucible...
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  • congressman, senator and Governor from Tennessee (b. 1850) April 3 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American aviation pioneer, in aircraft accident (b. 1879) April...
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  • Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957) January 12 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American pioneer aviator, makes first transcontinental U.S. flight...
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    – Waco's first skyscraper – being circled in flight by aviator Calbraith Perry Rodgers. A few years later, he created a 12-foot wide panorama of the Cotton...
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    Wright Model B on a demonstration flight at Long Beach, California, Calbraith Perry Rodgers collides with a seagull, which becomes entangled in his plane's...
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    Arnold (1886–1950) 1st Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling (1887–1960) Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912) started on June 5, 1911. Within a week, his instructor...
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  • (born 1873) March 23 – Mace Greenleaf, actor (born 1872) April 3 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers, aviation pioneer (born 1879) April 4 – Charles Brantley Aycock...
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  • in Addison, New York on his way to San Francisco, California. Calbraith Perry Rodgers tried to win it, having started too late, but did complete the...
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    In 1911, Locklear met Calbraith Perry Rodgers, who landed his plane in Fort Worth to unclog a fuel line. After meeting Rodgers, Locklear became fascinated...
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