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Iowa's First Flyer
August 1912
The monoplane built by Carl S. Bates, an aeronautical inventor originally from Clear Lake, Iowa.
Iowa's First Flyer
March 1909
Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake, Iowa, where he experimented with gliders...
Iowa's First Flyer
March 1909
The airplane invented by Carl S. Bates on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Coverage of this event by a local newspaper noted that the advantages of Bates' machine included a highly efficient an...
Iowa's First Flyer
March 1909
Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally challenged Curtiss and the Wright Brothers to a...
Bates Airplane Factory
Workers in Carl Bates' airplane factory in Chicago. The history of Bates' various aviation enterprises is sketchy, but it is known that he built airplanes and motors in Chicago until about 1912 whe...
Los Angeles Air Meet
January 1910
The grandstand at the Los Angeles Aviation Meet, the first international aviation event held in the United States. The plane on the ground near the center is the British-built Farman flown by Louis...
