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Lincoln Beachey website.
Thanks to John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.
Beachey perfected every kind of stunt: flying down into the mists of Niagara Falls, flying to an altitude record of over two miles, nose-diving from 3000 feet with his engine off while onlookers screamed, fainted, and vomited. He did one of the first loops in the air and he did it hair-raisingly close to the ground. Prize money amply repaid his costs to the Curtiss flying school.
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Lincoln Beachey,
Bust 'em green,
Tryin' to go to Heaven,
In a green machine.