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Aviation Medal of Merit issued by Aero Club of America, given to 33 military aviators who served in Britain and France during WWI.

The Aero Club of America was a social club formed in 1905 by Charles Jasper Glidden and Augustus Post, among others, to promote aviation in America. It was the parent organization of numerous state chapters, the first being the Aero Club of New England. It thrived until 1923, when it transformed into the National Aeronautic Association, which still exists today. It issued the first pilot's licenses in the United States, and successful completion of its licensing process was required by the United States Army for its pilots until 1914. It sponsored numerous air shows and contests. Cortlandt Field Bishop was president in 1910. Starting in 1911, new president Robert J. Collier began presenting the Collier Trophy.

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Aero Club of America

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The Aero Club of America was a social club formed in 1905 by Charles Jasper Glidden and Augustus Post, among others, to promote aviation in America. It...

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Collier Trophy

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Robert J. Collier, publisher of Collier's Weekly magazine, was an air sports pioneer and president of the Aero Club of America. In 1910, he commissioned...

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Matilde Moisant

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Fortier. Both places exist in records, but her license from the Aero Club of America shows Earl Park. Both parents were French Canadians. Her siblings...

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Raymond Orteig

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then president of the Aero Club of America, on 22 May 1919. At the time, relations were strained between America and France because of the post-war negotiations...

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Aerial Experiment Association

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representative from the Aero Club of America. Curtiss had visited the Wright brothers to discuss aeronautical engineering and offered them use of a 50 hp engine...

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Pilot licensing and certification

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aerial locomotion'. The Royal Aero Club followed in 1901 and the Aero Club of America was established in 1905. All three organizations, as well as representatives...

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Augustus Post

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participation in the field of aviation for all, including women and minorities, and as secretary of the Aero Club of America he signed the first woman's...

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Thomas Scott Baldwin

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Baldwin picked up the sobriquet, "Father of the American Dirigible". He received the Aero Club of America's first balloon pilot certificate.[citation...

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Flying club

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flying club or aero club is a not-for-profit, member-run organization that provides its members with affordable access to aircraft. Many clubs also provide...

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Flight surgeon

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civilian aviation organizations—the Aero Club of America and the Aerial League of America—to manage problems of medical screening and standards for U...

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International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park

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the Committee of Arrangements members were announced at the Finance Committee of the Aero Club of America. The members of the Committee of Arrangements...

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Orteig Prize

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of several similar aviation prize offers, and was made in a letter to Alan Ramsay Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America at the behest of Aero...

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Gustave Whitehead

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helicopter built by Lee Burridge of the Aero Club of America, but the craft failed to fly. Whitehead's own 1911 studies of the vertical flight problem resulted...

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Wright brothers

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brothers letter (page 1, page 2) to the Aero Club of America describes the long flights and provides a list of witnesses. (Courtesy Dayton Metro Library...

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Harriet Quimby

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first American woman to earn a pilot's license, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate #37, issued to her by the Aero Club of America. Quimby...

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National Aeronautic Association

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C. The NAA was founded in 1905, as the Aero Club of America (ACA), by members of the Automobile Club of America. From its inception, ACA’s goal was to...

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ACA

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education, based in Brussels Adult Children of Alcoholics, counseling and support group Aero Club of America, US aviation group, now the National Aeronautic...

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Elmer Ambrose Sperry

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Electrical Society American Petroleum Institute Edison Pioneers National Aeronautical Association Aero Club of America Engineers' Club National Electric...

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AEA June Bug

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performances of 2,175 ft (663 m) and 3,420 ft (1,040 m) were considered encouraging, and the A.E.A. contacted the Aero Club of America to sign up for...

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Ernest Wise Keyser

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publisher of Collier's Weekly magazine and president of the Aero Club of America, commissioned Keyser to make the 525-pound (238 kg) Aero Club of America Trophy...

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Charles Edwin Ruttan

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Retrieved 23 February 2016. "The Aero Club of America". Flying. Flying Association at the Office of the Aero Club of America. February 1918. p. 55. Retrieved...

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Homer Hedge

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found both the Automobile Club of America (currently known as the American Automobile Association) and the Aero Club of America. He was an avid balloonist...

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Curtiss Flying School

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was disbanded in 1922. Students would work toward completing the Aero Club of America pilot's license. The initial cost was one dollar a minute for the...

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Aircraft pilot

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British Royal Aero Club followed in 1910 and the Aero Club of America in 1911 (Glenn Curtiss receiving the first). Civilian pilots fly aircraft of all types...

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