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Iowa's Billy Robinson the Bird Man of Grinnell
The article recounts Billy Robinson of Grinnell Iowa a pioneering aviator who built his own plane and engine and after barnstorming returning to fly. He set a Des Moines to Chicago mail flight record in 1914 and perished in a 1916 high altitude crash ending his bid to reach 16 000 feet.
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