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| | Frederick W. Baldwin |
 | | An early flight enthusiast, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (center) formed an experimental group in 1907 to "build a practical aeroplane that will carry a man." Shown with Bell at his Nova Scotia home are (left to right) Glenn H. Curtiss, John McCurdy, F.W. Baldwin, and Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge. |
 | | Glenn Curtiss and Alexander Graham Bell had first met in New York in 1905, at which time Bell invited Curtiss to visit him at his summer home, Beinn Bhreagh (Gaelic for "Lovely Mountain"), near Baddeck on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. |
 | | On a bitterly cold March 12, 1908, the Red Wing, piloted by Casey Baldwin, sped over the icy surface of the lake on runners, bounded into the air, and actually flew for a distance of 318 feet 11 inches. |
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