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CHARLES HAMILTON
Charles Keeney Hamilton
(1885-1914)
Charles Hamilton was one of the most audacious demonstration pilots in the early days of aviation. He entered the dangerous world of aviation daredevils as a stunt parachutist and airship pilot, but quickly became a premier airplane pilot. He was perhaps the most famous and daring of the Curtiss Exhibition flyers, thrilling audiences with his trick landings and other bold feats.
He survived 63 crashes, enduring broken legs, smashed collarbones, cracked ribs, dislocated arms, and a plethora of other injuries. But it was not his fatalistic flying that did him in: he died from tuberculosis and pneumonia in January 1914.
Thanks to Mark J. Denger of the California Center for Military History for providing the image of Charles Hamilton for this page.
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