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	Thomas O. Selfridge
		Lieutenant Selfridge, who was in charge of the forward battery of six guns, saved himself by jumping from a gunport and swimming to a nearby launch.
		Selfridge had the unique opportunity to serve as captain of the Monitor for four days following the famous ironclad battle, but was replaced with a permanent commander.
		A fellow officer wrote, Selfridge "has lived a good while for a young man." In 1869, Selfridge was promoted to the rank of commander and spent the remainder of his naval career traveling the world.
	www.nps.gov /vick/visctr/sitebltn/selfrdg.htm (789 words)

	Thomas Selfridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane.
		Joseph, Missouri, with Foulois and Selfridge as the pilots.
		Selfridge was thrown against one of the wooden uprights of the framework and his skull was fractured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Selfridge (866 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Selfridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Selfridge, North Dakota Selfridge is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 223.
		Thomas Selfridge Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge (1908) was the first person to die in a powered aircraft crash.
		Selfridge found that when 78,557 was used as k in the equation, none of the numbers produced by the equation were prime.
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	Selfridge
		Selfridge was born on 24 April 1804 and was appointed midshipman on 1 January 1818.
		Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., son of the above, was born in Charlestown, Mass., on 6 February 1836 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1854.
		Selfridge returned to Pearl Harbor on 6 February and was underway again on the 9th to escort Saratoga to Bremerton for permanent repairs.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s9/selfridge-ii.htm (1762 words)

	History of Selfridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Selfridge flew this plane several more times before he was assigned to the Signal corps Aeronautical Division at Fort Myer, Virginia.
		Selfridge died three hours later and Wright was hospitalized for three months.
		Interred at Arlington National Cemetery, Selfridge also is memorialized at the U.S. Air Force Museum, at the cemetery of the United States Military Academy, and in the Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
	www.selfridge.army.mil /History.htm (534 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Thomas Selfridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Selfridge was born on February 6, 1836, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the son of Captain Thomas O. Selfridge, Sr., a distinguished naval officer.
		At the beginning of the Civil War, Selfridge was stationed on the Cumberland, and participated in the battle against the Virginia on March 8, 1862.
		Selfridge was given command of the Monitor by Secretary of the Navy Welles, relieving Lieutenant Greene on March 10, 1862.
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	Selfridge Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Selfridge Field is a joint Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard training facility in Harrison Township, Michigan, near Mount Clemens.
		The airfield was named for Lt. Thomas Selfridge, the first military officer to die in an aviation accident, while flying with Orville Wright at Fort Myer, Virginia.
		The 127th Wing of the Michigan Air National Guard was established at Selfridge ANG Base on April 1, 1996, by consolidating the former 127th Fighter Wing and the 191st Airlift Group.
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	Thomas Selfridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 2, 1882 - September 17, 1908) was the first person to die in a powered aircraft crash.
		Selfridge died, Orville Wright suffered severe injuries and was hospitalized for three months.
		Selfridge Air National Guard Base, located outside of Detroit, Michigan is named for him.
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	Selfridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas O. Selfridge (1804-1902), an admiral in the United States Navy, during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War
		Thomas Selfridge (1882 – 1908), a lieutenant in the US Army and the first person to die in a powered airplane crash
		USS Selfridge (DD-357), a United States Navy destroyer named for Thomas O. Selfridge and Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr.
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	USS Selfridge (DD-357), Porter-class destroyer leader
		The second USS Selfridge, DD 357, was laid down on 18 December 1933 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J., Iaunched on 18 April 1936; sponsored by Mrs.
		Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., son of Rear Admiral Selfridge, was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts 6 February 1836 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1954.
		Selfridge transited the Panama Canal and joined the Battle Force as flagship of Destroyer Squadron 4 on 13 December and reached San Diego on the 22d.
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	Thomas E. Selfridge
		First Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the United States Army was a pioneer in the development of air travel and the first air crash fatality.
		A graduate of the West Point military academy, Selfridge was appointed by President Teddy Roosevelt to observe the flight experiments of Alexander Graham Bell.
		Selfridge graduated from West Point in 1903, the same year as Douglas MacArthur.
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	Thomas Etholen Selfridge, First Lieutenant, United States Army
		Selfridge was an early Army aviator and had already flown solo in the "White Wing," the airplane designed and built by the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell and his AEA organization.
		Selfridge were on their seats when the machine struck the ground, held there by wire braces which cross immediately in front of the two seats.
		Thomas E. Selfridge, of the signal corps, was killed, and Orville Wright, the aviator, received a fractured thigh and two broken ribs, late yesterday afternoon, when the latter's aeroplane plunged to earth during an experimental flight over the drill grounds at Fort Myer.
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	First airplane crash information from UpgradeBuddy.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Twenty-six year-old Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge volunteered to be a passenger.
		Selfridge was the Wrights' heaviest passenger thus far, weighing 175 pounds.
		Thomas Selfridge was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
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	Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr: The Merrimac and the Cumberland
		THOMAS O. Captain Thomas D. Selfridge was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1837, and, when only seventeen years of age, graduated from the United States Naval Academy, at the head of his class.
		It was this desire to conciliate the latter, that led to the evacuation of the Norfolk yard, and not the fear of the rebel forces.
		Lieutenant Selfridge commanded the forward division of five 9-inch guns; Master Stuyvesant the after division of four 9-inch, and the two extreme after guns were manned by marines.
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	DANFS: USS Selfridge (DD-357)
		Thomas O. Selfridge was born on 24 April 1804 and was appointed midshipman on 1 January 1818.
		Thomas O. Selfridge, jr., son of the above, was born in Charlestown, Mass., on 6 February 1836 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1954.
		Selfridge transited the Panama Canal and joined the Battle Force as flagship of Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 4 on 13 December and reached San Diego on the 22d.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/danfs/DD/dd357.html (1732 words)

	Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge
		Thomas E. Selfridge was born in San Francisco on February 2, 1882.
		Selfridge did not have the opportunity to pilot the "Red Wing" himself; the trials were conducted by F.W. Baldwin.
		"Wright Flyer and Thomas Selfridge," [Report to the Aeronautical Board of the U.S. Army Signal Corps on the Accident to the Wright Aeroplane at Ft. Myer, Virginia, Sept. 17, 1908].
	www.libcoop.net /mountclemens/selfridge.htm (606 words)

	What was unique about the death of Lieutenant Thomas E Selfridge? in The AnswerBank: People & Places
		Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge was born in 1882.
		Selfridge was anxious to take part in this memorable flight, but had been ordered to go to the Missouri State Fair and Military Tournament for a dirigible exhibition.
		Thomas Etholen Selfridge was buried with full military honours at Arlington National Cemetery and a memorial to him has been put up at the US Air Force Museum.
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	Thomas_Selfridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		First Lieutenant '''Thomas Etholen Selfridge''' (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was the first person to die in a powered aircraft crash.
		On a bitterly cold March 12, 1908, the ''Red Wing'', piloted by "Casey" Baldwin, sped over the icy surface of Keuka Lake near Hammondsport, New York on runners, bounded into the air, and actually flew for a distance of 318 feet, 11 inches (97.2 m), before collapsing to the ground, leaving the pilot slightly bruised.
		:Lt. Selfridge up to this time had not uttered a word, though he took a hasty glance behind when the propeller broke and turned once or twice to look into my face, evidently to see what I thought of the situation.
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	Minutes by J. A. D. McCurdy, from September 21, 1908, to September 26, 1908: a machine-readable transcription.
		Thomas E. Selfridge, shall have a right to attend any of the meetings of the Association, and vote at such meetings in the name and stead of the late Lieut.
		Thomas E. Selfridge; and that in all matters requiring the unanimous consent of the members, that the consent of the said representative of the late Thomas E. Selfridge shall be rwquired.
		Thomas E. Selfridge for publication in one of the bulletins of the Association, and thought that it would be a good idea to have it published in book form for the information of the general public.
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	Selfridge AFB - United States Nuclear Forces
		Selfridge Air National Guard Base Base is located in South East Michigan, near Mount Clemens and 30 miles north of Detroit.
		Selfridge is named after Lt Thomas E. Selfridge who was killed September 17, 1908, in an aircraft crash while flying with Orville Wright at Ft. Meyer Virginia.
		Lt Selfridge was the first military officer to pilot an engine-driven aircraft and the first to meet his death in powered flight.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/selfridge.htm (409 words)

	NPR : 'The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright'
		Soldiers and spectators pull an unconscious, mortally wounded Lt. Thomas Selfridge from the wreckage of the Wright Model A Flyer.
		Lieutenant Selfridge up to this time had not uttered a word, though he took a hasty glance behind when the propeller broke, and turned once or twice to look into my face, evidently to see what I thought of the situation.
		Selfridge and Orville were pulled from the dusty tangle of splintered wood and ripped fabric and taken by stretcher to the post hospital.
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	First Flight Shrine: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge, a young West Pointer from San Francisco, joined the Aerial Experimental Association as an observer for the United States government.
		The group's second machine was the "White Wing." During tests of this airplane on May 19, 1908, at Hammondsport, New York, Selfridge piloted the craft on a flight of 100 feet.
		Lieutenant Selfridge was killed, thus becoming the first fatality in powered aviation.
	www.firstflight.org /shrine/thomas_selfridge.cfm (176 words)

	Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge
		Thomas E. Selfridge was born in San Francisco on February 2, 1882.
		Selfridge fractured his skull when his head struck a strut, and he was rendered immediately unconscious.
		"Wright Flyer and Thomas Selfridge," [Report to the Aeronautical Board of the U.S. Army Signal Corps on the Accident to the Wright Aeroplane at Ft. Myer, Virginia, Sept. 17, 1908].
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	Selfridge Field and the beginnings of air power
		Thomas E. Selfridge sits left of famed aviator Orville Wright as they prepare to take off on the fatal flight.
		Selfridge became a school for aircraft mechanics and later became the first aerial gunnery school.
		When the craft hit the ground Selfridge was thrown against one of the wooden uprights of the framework and his skull was fractured.
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	Fatal Attractions
		On September 17, 1908, Orville was making a short demonstration flight with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, one of the observers who had been assigned to assess the Military Flyer.
		Both men were unconscious; Selfridge was bleeding from the head.
		Selfridge had a fractured skull and had been rushed to surgery.
	www.wright-brothers.org /History/History%20of%20Airplane/fatal.htm (907 words)

	Tribute: Thomas E. Selfridge
		Thomas Selfridge is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
		Thomas Selfridge was graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1903, the year Samuel Langley and the Wright Brothers were preparing for their initial attempts at powered flight.
		Thomas Selfridge is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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	Thomas Selfridge Summary
		Lieutenant Selfridge, fascinated by aviation, acted as the army's official liaison to the Aerial Experiment Association founded by Glenn Curtiss and Alex...
		Thomas Etholen Selfridge(February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane.
		Early life Selfridge graduated from West Point in 1903.
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	NAHF
		Thomas Selfridge has the tragic honor of being the first person to die in a powered air crash.
		Born in San Francisco in 1882, Selfridge received his appointment to the Military Academy at West Point and graduated with the Class of 1903.
		Selfridge was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
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	Thomas Selfridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Orville Wright came to Fort Myer to demonstrate aircraft for the Army Selfridge arranged to along while Orville piloted the craft.
		Thomas Selfridge was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Section 3 Lot 2158 Grid Selfridge Air National Guard Base located outside Detroit Michigan is named for him.
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