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Re: Цар Фердинанд...
>Традиционно считается что это болгарский цар Фердинанд, который летел над Софии аж в 1910 г.
>Но мелкнуло и сведение, что мистер Тиодор Рузвелт летал раньше.
First Presidential Airplane Ride:
At an airshow at Aviation Field in St. Louis, Missouri on October 11, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt was offered a seat as a passenger in a plane for a demonstration flight. The pilot's name was Arch Hoxsey, who had just completed a record flight from Springfield, Illinois. The plane reached an altitude of about 50 feet, circled the field twice and stayed airborne for about four minutes. TR said he wished they could have stayed in the air for an hour. Arch Hoxsey was killed in a plane crash on December 31, 1910. This flight made TR the first President to fly in a plane. There is a picture of him strapping himself in that does look as though he was the pilot, but he was not
Да, Рузвелт летал на месяц ранше, но уже не был президентом.