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 [[File:Popular Mechanics - 1928 11 - 745.png|center|500px|alt= Drexel Taking Off in His Bleriot Monoplane: It Was in a Mate to This Ship That the Designer Wrote His Name into Aviation History When He Flew across the English Channel in 1909; Nineteen Years Later the "Southern Cross" Was Spanning the Pacific

Lincoln Beachey, Later a Famous Airplane Pilot, Got His Start with This Crude Little Dirigible; the Pilot, Straddling a Triangular Frame, Ran Back and Forth along the Keel to Point the Ship Up or Down, as the Bag Itself Had No Elevator Planes; at Left, Wilbur Wright Flying at Le Mans, France: This Is the Plane with Which He Electrified Europe by His Sensational Flights in 1908 and 1909 ]] 