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Aviator Charles Fity Remembered For Collapsible Wing Hope
Charles Fity of West Hempstead New York who designed a collapsible wing plane in 1905 tested it at Nassau Aerodrome Garden City. His crash and later life show a pioneer who never became famous but kept vivid memories of early aviation.
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George Vecsey
New York Times News
New York
Charles Fity
Charles Lindbergh
Fity
West Hempstead
N.Y
Meton Brothers
Nassau County
Nassau Coliseum
Fledgling County Air Museum
Wright Brothers
Long Island
Plains of Hempstead
Glenn Curtiss
Wrights
Calbraith Rodgers
Earl Ovington
Hap Arnold
T. D. Millin
Russell L. Maughan
San Francisco
Charles
Knabenschoe
Central Park
Aero Digest
Astor Hotel
Long Island City
Nassau
Garden City
Lafayette