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and its $ 4,000 prize for the longest sustained flight of the year. While attempting to land at an airfield in
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aircraft in the world. This aircraft was completed in
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that was being assembled at the Queen factory for
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Only months after becoming a pilot, Moisant died after being ejected from his airplane over a field just west of
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Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot.
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AĂ©ro-Club de France. That same day, he followed this performance with an encore, flying over Paris again with
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John Moisant entered the aviation field in 1909 as a hobby, after attending the
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Moisant died on the morning of December 31, 1910, in an air crash near
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American businessman, revolutionary, and aviation pioneer (1868–1910)
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A plane Moisant crashed in a taxiing collision on October 23, 1910
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Moisant as seen in flight in his Blériot XI competing in the
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that generated a substantial sum for the family. In 1909,
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1361:"Moisant, King of Aviators, Killed".
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765:John Moisant was buried at the
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2192:De Rozier's balloon incident
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1599:Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
1458:Early Aviators: John Moisant
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1344:Aeronautics. December 1910.
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2528:Zeppelin LZ 61 shot down
2519:Zeppelin LZ 78 shot down
2474:Zeppelin LZ 55 shot down
2384:Zeppelin LZ 37 shot down
2357:Zeppelin LZ 23 shot down
1212:"The Daring Mr. Moisant"
1069:Villard, Henry S. 1987.
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1605:Augustus Roy Knabenshue
1593:Winfield Bertrum Kinner
1569:Walter Richard Brookins
854:Queen Aeroplane Company
777:, also in Los Angeles.
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253:Matilde Moisant, sister
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1116:Rich, Doris L. 1998.
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2429:Zeppelin LZ 54 crash
2375:Zeppelin LZ 29 crash
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2104:Samuel Franklin Cody
1489:, December 31, 2010.
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563:Le Circuit de l'Est
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409:Pyrénées-Atlantiques
52:improve this article
2537:Zeppelin LZ 53 fire
2402:Zeppelin LZ 43 fire
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1906:St. Croix Johnstone
1629:Warren Samuel Eaton
1563:John Bevins Moisant
1405:Phillips, Edward H.
1166:Rich, Doris. 1998.
718:Charles K. Hamilton
648:Completed 56 laps.
566:Time Trial Circuit
445:Le Circuit de l'Est
413:AĂ©ro-Club de France
357:Issy-les-Moulineaux
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282:Alameda, California
187:, businessman, and
173:John Bevins Moisant
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1387:The Times-Picayune
1363:The Daily Picayune
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1132:airandspace.si.edu
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278:Manteno, Illinois
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