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the era's most notable aviators, such as
Lincoln Beachey, Roy Francis, Fred Hoover, and William "Billy" Robinson, as well as a fair number of european aviators, spent time flying and learning to fly there. French citizens George Mestach, Andre Ruehl, Eugene Godet, Andre Frey, and Marcel Tournier, Russian citizens Ignace G. Semeniouk and Pavel "Paul" Studensky, J. Ramon Montero of Peru, and
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1914 - 1914 - BEACHEY & ROYALTIES: On May 20, Hans-Joachim
Buddecke flew "Billy" Robinson's Gnome-powered Nieuport-type monoplane and apparently enjoyed the experience, for he purchased it from Robinson. He flew the monoplane at Cicero on several occasions from late May to early July, when he had
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Station and School (later the Lillie-Thompson school), where Katherine Stinson learned to aviate, the National School, and the Partridge-Keller school. Many of
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monoplane) and he immediately taught himself how to fly. On the day
Buddecke started his own aircraft production company, war was declared and he abandoned his business plans and returned to Germany, with the American-built Nieuport monoplane he had purchased at the Cicero aerodrome. Travelling
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Chicago from Germany to work with his uncle; at Cicero he learned to fly aeroplanes. In August 1914, as war began to rage in Europe, Hans-Joachim Buddecke returned to Germany with his Nieuport-type monoplane, and joined the Imperial German Air Service.
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