VISITORS LOOKING at the Early Flight display case at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center will see a checkerboard "Early Bird" cap belonging to Elmo Neale Pickerill, an early aviator recognized as the pioneer of aircraft radio. For years it was believed that on August 4, 1910, Pickerill made the first radio-telegraphic communication between the air and the ground while flying solo in a Curtiss pusher from Mineola, Long Island, to Manhattan Beach and back. Unfortunately, new research suggests that Pickerill never made such a flight—nor was he an Early Bird (someone who flew prior to 1916, when the U.S. Army trained a large number of pilots for World War I).
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机译：参观者在美国国家航空航天博物馆的史蒂文·乌德瓦·哈兹中心的史蒂芬·F·乌德瓦·哈兹中心的“早期飞行”展示柜中看到，一块早期的飞行员Elmo Neale Pickerill的棋盘格“ Early Bird”帽，这是公认的飞机无线电先驱。多年来，人们一直相信，皮克利尔（Pickerill）在Curtiss推杆中从长岛米尼奥拉（Mineola），长岛（Long Island）到曼哈顿海滩（Manhattan Beach）并返回后，首次在空中与地面之间进行无线电通信。不幸的是，新的研究表明，皮克里尔从来没有进行过这样的飞行-他也不是“早起的鸟儿”（早在1916年美军为第一次世界大战训练大量飞行员时就曾飞行过的人）。
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