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 Post subject: Russell Holderman
PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:50 pm 
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17-year-old Russell Holderman prepares to launch his first hang glider in 1912.

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Democrat and Chronicle
(Rochester, New York)
26 May 1981, Tue • Metro • Page 9


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 Post subject: Re: Russell Holderman
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Book's ad paragraph
Between Kittyhawk and the Moon: Memoirs of an Aviation Pioneer
Paperback – June 3, 2009
by Russell Holderman (Author), Nancy Holderman Durante (Editor)

In the book there is a photograph of Russ in a room where many of his photographs are displayed; one of the photos on the wall is the one that you, Rick found. So, even though the book by Russ is about his 1913 onwards powered aviation life, the fact he kept and displayed the hang glider photograph is telling. From a note surrounding his receiving an honorary doctorate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, my calculation puts your found photo in 1910.

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