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Might be "Ginocchio"? "Ginocchio" gets far more google hits as a surname than "Inocchio." (Ginocchio means "knee" in Italian.) In the October 22, 1910 edition of Foreign Aviation News there's an item:

A Bleriot for the Italian Army During Saturday afternoon the Italian officer Ginocchio was flying at Etampes for two hours on his two-seated Bleriot with a passenger, the height ranging up to 500 metres. On the previous day the machine had been tested by Lemartin, who was aloft for an hour and a half, and flew three times over the town of Etampes, his greatest height being 800 metres.

Found here: www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910 - 0873.html

If you put 'Ginocchio' back into the searchbox in the FlightGlobal 'Archive' section it reveals a Captain Ginocchio in charge of the first Italian Government Sea Plane Station at Venice about 1912.A further Google search records an early overwater record flight Venice-Trieste-Venice (256km) by Ginocchio and Chet. I put Ginocchio into the LOC photo search box and got 'Captain Ginocchio's Aeroplane' memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/13400/13494v.jpg a photo of a little sea plane at Venice, Italy (and there is a section of that photo(church tower) in the lower LH corner of this one...which may be of a Wright type 2-seater trainer?) .....well done 'pennylrichardsca' for knowing some Italian The Flightglobal archive is every page of 100years of the UK magazine Flight scanned, digitized, fully searchable and swept by Google. 'Foreign Aviation News' was a section heading in Flight magazine

Thanks for pointing out the more likely surname. We also have a print from this negative, and there it seems more clear that the name is "Ginocchio." We'll adjust the title when we update the description.

I think that is Thomas Miller's Chairoplane ride.

Lets hope the clutch was smooth!

Interesting how the radiators are fixed to the sides of the engine cover too.