1913: ALEXANDER PEREY'S TRENTON-BUILT AEROPLANE

Perey's plane didn't take off on the following Saturday. A note in the paper said that he was already to take off, but found that the canvas on the wings of the plane had been caught in the rain on the preceding night and it was too heavy to get off the ground. 1,000 disappointed spectators left the field at "Cedar Lane and South Broad Street," and Perey postponed the effort, telling the crowd he was sure the plane would fly, and he would make another attempt.

(A note from Tom: I'll keep a lookout on Perey's "Aeroplane"
in subsequent Gazette pages.)

1944: MILITARY PLANE CRASHES IN HAMILTON

Over the years, numerous people have asked me about the U.S. Army plane that crashed in Hamilton. The consensus seems to be that the plane went down ina an area that at the time was woods and farm land. The most logical location would be in an area behind today's Cedar Gardens, a good distance away from Route 33 between Klockner Road to the south.

1905: AVIATION: THE EARLY YEARS

Three years earlier, Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in getting a very flimsy aircraft to make a relatively prolonged flight. That was the beginning of an early era in aviation when other would be flyers began to construct their own aircraft designs. The above gentleman chose to try a flying "kite" made of bamboo. As you can see in the article, the attempt was a dismal failure.