Roosevelt Takes Flight
While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign in St. Louis, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was invited to fly in a biplane with aviator Arch Hoxsey. A day later, on October 12, 1910, the event was front page news.
It was reported in The Times that a "broad grin of delight spread over the Colonel's face and his eyes fairly shown with pleasure" when Hoxsey invited him for a flight over St. Louis Aviation Field. "You're not going up, are you, Colonel?" asked a governor that overhead the invitation. "By George, I believe I will," replied Roosevelt.
After a few laps in the air, the two landed back on solid ground to a "tremendous roar" as crowds rushed the field, "each man striving to be the first to greet Col. Roosevelt as he stepped out of the machine." And how was the trip? "By George, it was fine!" exclaimed the Colonel, after untangling himself from the cross-wires that ran between the plane, "I only wish I could have stayed up there an hour. It was great."
"There's nothing left for him to try now," one of the spectators said of the former president, "He's been down in a submarine and up in an airplane. That's about the limit."
While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign in St. Louis, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was invited to fly in a biplane with aviator Arch Hoxsey. A day later, on October 12, 1910, the event was front page news.
It was reported in The Times that a "broad grin of delight spread over the Colonel's face and his eyes fairly shown with pleasure" when Hoxsey invited him for a flight over St. Louis Aviation Field. "You're not going up, are you, Colonel?" asked a governor that overhead the invitation. "By George, I believe I will," replied Roosevelt.
After a few laps in the air, the two landed back on solid ground to a "tremendous roar" as crowds rushed the field, "each man striving to be the first to greet Col. Roosevelt as he stepped out of the machine." And how was the trip? "By George, it was fine!" exclaimed the Colonel, after untangling himself from the cross-wires that ran between the plane, "I only wish I could have stayed up there an hour. It was great."
"There's nothing left for him to try now," one of the spectators said of the former president, "He's been down in a submarine and up in an airplane. That's about the limit."
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While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign in St. Louis, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was invited to fly in a biplane with aviator Arch Hoxsey. A day later, on October 12, 1910, the event was front page news.
It was reported in The Times that a "broad grin of delight spread over the Colonel's face and his eyes fairly shown with pleasure" when Hoxsey invited him for a flight over St. Louis Aviation Field. "You're not going up, are you, Colonel?" asked a governor that overhead the invitation. "By George, I believe I will," replied Roosevelt.
After a few laps in the air, the two landed back on solid ground to a "tremendous roar" as crowds rushed the field, "each man striving to be the first to greet Col. Roosevelt as he stepped out of the machine." And how was the trip? "By George, it was fine!" exclaimed the Colonel, after untangling himself from the cross-wires that ran between the plane, "I only wish I could have stayed up there an hour. It was great."
"There's nothing left for him to try now," one of the spectators said of the former president, "He's been down in a submarine and up in an airplane. That's about the limit."
