The life that the pupils lead at these schools is most interesting and healthful. The students get up early, sometimes at four in the morning, when it is just light enough to see and when the air is usually calm and the best conditions for learning to fly exist. Pupils are outdoors practically all day, flying, or working on the machines when any thing breaks or goes wrong. Many pupils have engaged in exhibition flying after completing their course of instruction, and among the large number of very excellent aviators that have followed in Mr. Curtiss' wing beats (for you can hardly say foot steps) have been some of the foremost aviators in the world and men whose fame and exploits are household words to-day.
A partial list of some of these men at present active in the field is here given:
Chas. F. Willard, Hugh Robinson, Chas. K. Hamilton, J. C. Mars, C. C. Witmer, E. C. St. Henry, Lincoln Beachey, Beckwith Havens, Lieut. T. G. Ellyson, U. S. N.; Capt. P. W. Beck, U. S. A.; Lieut. J. H. Towers, U. S. N.; William Hoff, J. B. McCalley, S. C. Lewis, C. W. Shoemaker, W. B. Atwater, Al. Mayo, Al. J. Engle, J. Lansing Callan, G. E. Underwood, Irah D. Spaulding, C. F. Walsh, Carl T. Sjolander, Fred Hoover, E. C. Malick, Ripley Bowman, T. T. Maroney, C. A. Berlin, H. Park, W. M. Stark, E. H. McMillan, F. J. Terrill, Francis Wildman, F. J. Southard, Lieut. P. A. Dumford, W. B. Hemstrought, Earl Sandt, E. B. Russell, Lieut. J. E. McClaskey, W. W. Vaughn, Barney Moran, M. Kondo, J. G. Kaminski, Mohan Singh, K. Takeishi.
CURTISS' PUPILS
| Beckwith Havens | Witmer | Cromwell Dixon |
| Chas. K. Hamilton | J. A. D. McCurdy Chas. F. Walsh | Chas. F. Willard |
- Witmer
LINCOLN BEACHEY FLYING IN GORGE AT NIAGARA
(Insert: Portrait of Beachey)