November 25, 2010

All eyes likely turned to the sky when this early biplane flew over the town of Leslie (Searcy County) in 1912. Just nine years after the famous Wright brothers’ motorized flight at Kitty Hawk, the flight shown here over the mountain town must have been an early one in the state. Though common today, large numbers of planes did not arrive in Arkansas until the United States entered World War I in 1917.

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