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The Collection: People: Walter Brookins

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Portrait photograph of Walter BrookinsWalter Brookins (3rd from left), Roy Knabenshue (4th from left), and Glenn Curtiss (wearing inner tube life preserver) with unidentified men at Atlantic City, New Jersey.Walter Brookins (3rd from left), Roy Knabenshue(4th from left), and Glenn Curtiss (2nd from right) with unidentified men at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Walter Brookins (3rd from right), Glenn Curtiss(4th from left) Frank Coffyn (5th from left), Augustus Post (6th from left) with unidentified men at Atlantic City, New Jersey.Walter Brookins descending without power after altitude record flight; Glenn Curtiss in flight behind him.Frank Coffyn (2nd from left), Roy Knabenshue (3rd from left), and Walter Brookins with unidentified men in front of Wright transitional aircraft in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Group portrait with Walter Brookins (far right), Frank Coffyn (back row, center), Mrs. Coffyn (front row, left), Roy Knabenshue (far left), and others.Walter Brookins and unidentified woman in an early Wright Model B.Walter Brookins (right) and Frank Coffyn (left) with unidentifed man and Wright transitional machine, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Wright exhibition team pilot and instructor. Born Dayton, Ohio July 11, 1888. Died April 29, 1953. Brookins had known the Wrights from age four, and had been a student of Katharine Wright. Brookins was the first to be trained by Orville Wright, and was one of the most daring and accomplished of all the Wright team. He retired from aviation and spent his later yers in the automotive service industry.


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