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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 249379, member: 56"]56th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society (1992)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ohs/items/1.0132229" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ohs/items/1.0132229" rel="nofollow">https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ohs/items/1.0132229</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>It is fitting then that the Enderby Radio Range should look down on the area of the B.C. Interior's first flight by a heavier than air machine on July 1,1912, eighty years ago. The honour for this historic occasion goes to the City of Armstrong. The pilot was Billy Stark, one of only two aircraft owners on Canada's Pacific coast. He rail-freighted his frail pusher type Curtiss biplane from Vancouver. He assembled the craft at the fairground and made two successful flights before a crowd of over four thousand spectators.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>July 1 is Canada Day (Dominion Day in 1912), Canada's birthday.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 249379, member: 56"]56th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society (1992) [URL]https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ohs/items/1.0132229[/URL] [I]It is fitting then that the Enderby Radio Range should look down on the area of the B.C. Interior's first flight by a heavier than air machine on July 1,1912, eighty years ago. The honour for this historic occasion goes to the City of Armstrong. The pilot was Billy Stark, one of only two aircraft owners on Canada's Pacific coast. He rail-freighted his frail pusher type Curtiss biplane from Vancouver. He assembled the craft at the fairground and made two successful flights before a crowd of over four thousand spectators. [/I] July 1 is Canada Day (Dominion Day in 1912), Canada's birthday. [I][/I][/QUOTE]
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