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Oct 1st, 2017: Calbraith Perry Rodgers
Rogers made the first US transcontinental flight from Sheepshead Bay NY to long Beach CA.
His father, an Army Captain, died before he was born, his grandfather Commodore John Rodgers, great-grandfather Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, and great-great uncle Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry. He couldn't join the military because he was deaf in one ear and half deaf in the other from scarlet fever. He played with boats, cars and motorcycles then discovered airplanes. Quote:
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He died a year later… you knew it had to be a plane crash, didn't you. link
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