The Start of Lethbridge's Aviation History Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/26/2010
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This event is credited as being the first air show in Western Canada.

The year was 1911 and to celebrate the opening of the $30,000 Lethbridge Exhibition building Eugene Ely, a famous American flyer was hired for $1500 to demonstrate the flying machine. His Glenn Curtiss biplane was shipped in and he made two short flights; one seven and the other 13 minutes from the site of today’s exhibition track. Note the same barns found in the picture below can be seen from this location today.

Three months later Ely was dead.




Earlier in January 1911 he had made history in San Francisco Bay when he made the first landing of an airplane on the deck of a ship. On October 19, 1911, while flying at an exhibition in Macon, Georgia, his plane was late pulling out of a dive and crashed. Ely jumped clear of the wrecked aircraft, but his neck was broken, and he died a few minutes later.

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