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George W. Beatty www.earlyaviators.com/ebeatty.htm

undeadsinatra: Thanks for the information! We’ll update the description.

Photo taken Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome International Aviation Meet. (Garden City, Long Island, New York) September 23,1911- October 1,1911. Ellyson, whose name appears on one of the hangars, was at this Airmeet and was the only time he was at the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome. George W. Beatty Aero Club of America Pilot#41 Wright B biplane

Earle Lewis Ovington (December 20, 1879 - 1936) was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison. Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the US in 1911, from Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York. He delivered 640 letters and 1,280 postcards, including a letter to himself from the United States Postal Service designating him as "Official Air Mail Pilot #1." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Ovington Frank Harris Hitchcock (October 5, 1867 – August 25, 1935), was chairman of Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1909. He was then Postmaster General of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1913. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Harris_Hitchcock The plane is instantly recognizable as a Blériot XI. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%c3%a9riot_XI

Other Bain/LOC photos of Earle Lewis Ovington, the first U. S. Airmail pilot:

Photo taken Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome Garden City, Long Island, New York. Notice hangars, helpful in identifying Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome

Louis Bleriot, of France, made the first flight across the English Channel in a monoplane, on July 25, 1909, landing near Dover in England. J. M. Johnson was present with others at Dover to greet him. Is this that J. M. Johnson? Was he an Englishman?

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No Ailerons on the wings. These wings must have somehow twisted, to change air surface, to roll.