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The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet

By Kenneth E. Pauley, Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
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By Kenneth E. Pauley, Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
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Most Americans had never seen the newfangled machines that soared in the skies at America's first international air meet in 1910.

Enthusiasm for aviation grew after the first international air meet in 1909 in Rheims, France, where American aviator Glenn H. Curtiss won three prestigious speed prizes and 36,000 francs. An even more spectacular air meet, which would also invigorate the local economy, was promoted for Los Angeles. Businessman Dick Ferris, the Los Angeles Merchants and Manufactu...

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