Boy Builds an Airship; Everything About It His Own Work and It Will Fly ,too Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: September 11, 1910 Transcribed by Bob Davis - 8-20-05 "Chico, Cal., Sept. 10. - "Success has crowned the efforts of Thaddeus Kerns, 16 years old, a Chico youth who has been trying to make flights for some time past in an home-made aeroplane. Thursday afternoon he circled the mile race track twice. Yesterday he repeated his experiments and left the ground for three or four short flights. Everything about the machine, with the exception of the engine, is the work of the boy's own hands. The machine is built along the lines of the Curtiss model.

Sunset Field - Alameda Ready for the Takeoff KERNS FAMILY COLLECTION

 

Sunset Field - Alameda Ready for the Takeoff Collection of Betty Ballantine, 3-23-05 Courtesy of Ben Kerns

 

Thaddeus Kerns In Flight Collection of Betty Ballantine, 3-23-05 Courtesy of Ben Kerns

 

Thaddeus Kerns After the Flight Collection of Betty Ballantine, 3-23-05 Courtesy of Ben Kerns

 

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