GRINNELL AEROPLANE CO.

 

Billy Robinson in His Grinnell-Robinson Scout Photo from the Billy Robinson Field Collection

W. C. ROBINSON'S MONOPLANE GRINNELL, IA. 118 Photo from the Billy Robinson Field Collection

GRINNELL AEROPLANE COMPANY GRINNELL, IOWA

Billy died March 1916 trying to set an altitude record of 18,000ft. He spun down but the tracks left in the snow showed he landed the plane and on roll out the plane hit a ditch, nosed over and burned. We mostly figured hypoxia with a late semi concious landing. He died in the biplane. Photo & text from the Billy Robinson Field Collection

 

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