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Someday It Will Be Me! The first time he saw an aeroplane was in Ashland, Wisconsin, September 1911. This was just eight years after the Wright Brothers made their first official heavier-than-air flight. Walter was fascinated. He played hooky from his job as chauffer and spent the day at the fair grounds watching them "set the plane up". In those days, they took the planes apart, crated them and shipped them by train from one city to another. Shortly thereafter, Walter signed up with the Aero Exhibition Company to learn to fly. After some weeks in St. Augustine, Florida, he discovered that the whole deal was a scam. He next managed to find employment with Tom Benoist. |
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Curtiss Ad in Town & Country July, 1911 |
Aviation Ads, Town & Country July, 1911 |
Beckwith Havens Ashland, WI September, 1911 |
Walter The Chauffer September, 1911 |
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Benoist Ashland, WI 1911 |
Walter Lees & Otto Brodie St. Augustine, FL January, 1912 |
Walter in a Bleriot Type XI St Augustine January, 1912 |
Otto Brodie & Farman Biplane, St. Augustine March,1912 |
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Benoist Tractor Type XII, No. 31 June, 1912 |
Lees In A Benoist November, 1912 |
Benoist Wreck Kinloch, MO May, 1912 |
Cicero Field, Chicago, 1912 |
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Beckwith Havens Charlottesville, VA 1912 |
Benoist Tractor Type Biplane |
Capo's Launch St. Augustine, FL, 1912 |
Korn Brothers,1911 |
Gallery 2