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Curtiss Aviation School Students

Date: 03 07 1912
Description: Students of the Curtiss School of Aviation on North Island moving a plane into position for a lesson.
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Curtiss Aviation School

Date: 1912
Description: Photo opportunity day at the Glenn Curtiss School of Aviation on North Island in San Diego Harbor. The man in the lower left corner is thought to be Glenn ...
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Curtiss Aviation School Students

Date: 05 1912
Description: The 1912 class at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, near San Diego. Milwaukee's John Kaminski (in white shirt and tie) is second from the ...
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Curtiss Aviation School

Date: 1912
Description: Hangars of the Curtiss Aviation School and the San Diego Aero Club on North Island in San Diego Harbor. Glenn Curtiss himself is thought to be the individu...
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Milwaukee Flying School

Date: 1912
Description: An unidentified student among a group of men getting a lesson in a Curtiss plane at Rudolph Silverston's Milwaukee School and College of Aviation. Caption ...
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Kaminski as Aviation Instructor

Date: 1913
Description: Hangar of the Ohio aviation school of Dr. Rudolph Silverston, formerly of Milwaukee, together with three planes: two Curtiss pushers and a Bleriot monoplan...
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Wisconsin Central Pilot Training

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Description: Wisconsin Central Airline's flight simulator which was designed to teach the airline's pilots how to fly with instruments.
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Teachers Boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 Airplane

Date: 01 23 1947
Description: Area teachers attending an aviation education program boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane at Truax Field along with some members of the flight crew.
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4-H Gypsy Festival Queen Leaving Airplane

Date: 1949
Description: Original caption states: "Alpha Bungum, 17, of Kasson, Minn., receives congratulations from A.S. Knudsen, northwest regional manager, general line sales, ...
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Lowell School Sixth Graders at Madison Airport

Date: 10 20 1949
Description: A group of sixth graders, from Lowell School, are shown with a Northwest Airlines plane at Madison's municipal airport as a part of their study of transpor...
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American Field Service International Scholarship Program

Date: 06 16 1954
Description: Three Madison West High School students board a plane to spend the summer in Europe under the American Field Service International Scholarship Program. Lef...
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Obey and Madison

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Description: Congressman David R. Obey (right) and his home secretary Jerry Madison, also a Wausau history teacher, traveling in the district on an airplane.
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Rotary International Fellowship Program

Date: 07 14 1961
Description: Rotary District 625's scholarship committee chairman Basil I. Peterson greets Japanese student Tomoko Arai at the Madison Municipal Airport. She will be st...

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