LIEUTENANT KELLY'S BOOTS

摘要

When Lt George Edward Maurice Kelly climbed into the cockpit of the US Army's Curtiss Model D biplane at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on 9 May 1911, it would be his last flight. He crashed and died that day. Four months earlier he had participated in the San Francisco International Air Meet, taking aerial reconnaissance photographs which are published here for the first time. They are the earliest military reconnaissance photos captured from an aeroplane that are known to exist.