LT. SCHMIDT -1913

 

Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: August 23, 1913, Transcribed by Bob Davis - 7-15-04 "Prussian Aviator Killed," "Halberstadt, Prussia, Aug. 22.      Lieutenant Schmidt of the army aviation corps met death here today after a fall of more than a mile. The lieutenant was completing an aeroplane flight from Goslar, thirty miles west of Halberstadt and had begun a spiral descent when one of the wings collapsed and the machine plunged to the ground."

 

Lieutenant Schmidt was killed in a crash in 1913.   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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