Lincoln Beachey

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Lincoln Beachey leaves aviation mark on Terre Haute "The online edition of the Tribune-Star Terre Haute, Indiana"
Frank Marrero, one of Beachey’s biographers, declared that Lincoln was the first pilot to fly upside down; the first in America to loop-the-loop and the first in the world to master the backward somersault; the first pilot to tail-slide on purpose; the first to figure out how to pull out of a tail-spin; the first to fly inside a building; the first to pick up a handkerchief from the ground with his wing tip; and the first man to fly an airplane over Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Toronto and several other American cities. Click to read this account by By Mike McCormick
Special to the Tribune-Star