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  1. Joe McKnight

    Ms. Causey — Neat film of Teddy R. flying. Was that his nephew, Franklin Roosevelt sitting in front passenger seat of the Colonel’s car? Franklin, born in 1882, would have been 28-29 years old at the time.
    jm/

  2. Frances M. Meservy

    I love your books and am looking forward to reading the next one when it comes out. Fran

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  4. Anonymous

    That is interesting, my Grandfather had mentioned he saw the Wright Brothers fly, and he was in Montgomery at that time. I thought he was confused. Maybe it makes sense now.

    1. Alabama Pioneers

      A very good chance that he did indeed see them fly, the Wright brothers flew and frequented their school in Montgomery often

  5. Ed Jean Washburn

    Learned something new about Alabama history from a very interesting article.

  6. Ken Hedgepath

    The book-Wings of Opportunity by Dr. Julie Hedgepeth Williams is about the flying school.

    1. Manuel Barje

      Thanks Ken, I just ordered her book, can’t wait to read it.
      Manuel

    2. Donna R Causey

      Thanks, Here’s the book online. http://amzn.to/1KuAvf9

  7. Did you know six years before the Wright Bros. famous flight a manned glider flew 15 feet over Mobile Bay beach in Alabama? - Alabama Pioneers

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  8. Bill Robertson

    That’s great

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  10. Peggy Cravens

    No:

  11. William Gulley

    Didn’t know that.

  12. Rhonda Thomas Funderburk

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  13. Cliff McNair

    NO I DIDN’T KNOW THAT

  14. Gerald Fore

    Montgomery is the birth place of all modern flight. It is a shame that the history has not been preserved better.

  15. Steve Bryant

    This, I did not know…why is it taught differently in school? It should be changed to read & be taught exactly as it is told here.

  16. Charles Carlisle Jr.

    There is also evidence that the first ever airplane flight happened here in the 1890s around Talladega! Boswell Field is named after the guy who did it!

  17. Paul Moga

    Nice

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