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 | | By 1909, there were enough of the new flying machines that the world’s first international aviation meeting was held in Rheims, France, on August 22-29. |
 | | The many Europeans who made flights of various distances before 1909 included Santos-Dumont, Henry Farman and Louis Bleriot of France, Jacob Christian H. Ellehammer of Denmark, and Traian Vuia of Transylvania (Romania), among others. |
 | | In Canada, an organization called the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A.) was formed by the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell, along with aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, Lt. Thomas Selfridge of the US Army, and Canadians John A. McCurdy and Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin. |
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