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Charles Baysdorfer piloting the Comet during Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben carnival, Oct. 3, 1907. Postcard reads "Air-ship making
ascension from 'King's Highway', Omaha Neb." HISTORY NEBRASKA, RG3348-6-30
Two months before Baysdorfer's fi rst fl ight, Arch Hoxsey survived crashing his Wright fl yer into an animal barn at the
Nebraska State Fair on Sept. 6, 1910. Hoxsey died in Los Angeles on Dec. 31 while trying to set a fl ight altitude record. Although
not from Nebraska himself, Hoxsey shares a cemetery plot with his father in Atkinson, Nebraska.
HISTORY NEBRASKA, RG3542-111-9
