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During the time the meet was running, streetcars ran to Dominguez Fields every 2 minutes from the Pacific Electric station in Los Angeles. [15] The great crowd turn-out, averaging more than 20,000 spectators per day, made it possible to return $1.25 to "the subscribers to the aviation fund for every dollar advanced". [ 16 ]
The Los Angeles Times called it "one of the greatest public events in the history of the West." 1910: Harvard-Boston Aero Meet at the Harvard Aviation Field in Atlantic, Massachusetts, from September 3 to September 13, 1910. It was the first major air event in the eastern United States and offered $90,000 in prizes and appearance fees.
Postcard from the event. The 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet (August 12 to August 20, 1911) was major aviation show held at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States in August 1911. [1] [2]
The air show was the idea of Andrew Freedman who was a director of the Wright Company. [1] The company was started by the Wright brothers who were American aviation pioneers. . They became the first to pilot a heavier-than-air flying machine on December 17, 1903.
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This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles.
A French built Wright Biplane flies in front of the packed grandstand at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation Tribunes from the sky .. The Grand Semaine d'Aviation, held between 22 August and 29 August 1909, was sponsored by many of the leading makers of champagne including Moët et Chandon and Mumm [1] and organised by a committee headed by the Marquis de Polignac.