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The aircraft covered 319 ft (97 m) at a height of around 20 ft (6 m). This was said to be the longest "first flight" by either an aircraft or a pilot, up to that date. On March 17 Baldwin attempted a second flight, also from the ice of Keuka Lake, before crashing 20 seconds after takeoff.
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Contemporary accounts described the flight as the "First Public Trip of
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in what would be the first public demonstration of a powered aircraft flight in the United States as well as the first flight by a
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