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How Aviation “Firsts” Took Place in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Elsbeth E. Freudenthal*
Affiliation:
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Extract

Although, at the beginning of the year 1911, there was practically no aviation activity in Mexico, the development was so fast that by 1913 the airplane had demonstrated its usefulness in war and had even been used to bomb naval vessels. To those who would see, the events taking place in and over Mexico clearly foreshadowed the future importance of this weapon. While flying was not new in 1911, for many generations had worked on the problem, still it was only a couple of years before that Bleriot’s flight across the English Channel had convinced the world that flying was indeed a reality.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1947

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References

1 War Department, Annual Report, 1911: v.2, p.125.

2 Aero & Hydro, Nov. 16, 1912, p. 118.

3 Ibid.

4 Tohtli (Mexico), May, 1918, p. 184–185.