The Peculiar Truth about the First Airplane Daredevil
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3 min readFeb 20, 2024
- Lincoln Beachey was born and raised in San Francisco, California in 1887. The Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903 fascinated him, and Beachey purchased his first powered aircraft two years later when he was age 18.
- Airplanes were such a novelty at the time that most people had never seen one, let alone flown one, especially not a teenager.
