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Golf Course Landing
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A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encountered by early pilots because of the lack of proper landing fields. In this case a tree had to be cut down to oblige the pilot.
1916
O'Brien, Warren S., Waukesha, Wisconsin
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Moor (Mud) Baths
1920
View of the main building in the distance, and in the foreground a golf course of the Moor (Mud) Baths. Caption reads: "Main Bldg., Moor (Mud) Baths, Waukesha, Wis."
Wrights' Neighbor
July 2, 1909
Test flight of the bi-plane invented by Roy Rolf Zorn of Dayton, Ohio, who later resided in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Pilot "Cash" Chamberlain
1929
Commercial pilot C.B. "Cash" Chamberlain posed with a Hamilton Metalplane owned by Universal Airlines. Chamberlain began his flying career with the Walter Liskowitz airline company of Waukesha. Lat...
Women Aviators
Studio portrait of women who are taking flying lessons. Several of the women are dressed in furs.
Waukesha Flyers
1932
Fritz Warden (at the propeller) and Lee Barney, two young members of the Waukesha Flying Club, together with Barney's Aeronica C2 airplane. The Aeronica was a small, lightweight, easy-to-operate s...
