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July08/2010

Geocache Activity 734

FIND 675

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GC29881

The Start of Lethbridge's Aviation History

N 49° 41.295 W 112° 46.816

Difficulty 1; Terrain 1.5; size micro; Creator: smartee Date First Hidden: 5/26/2010 Date Last Found: 7/06/2010
Lethbridge

Description This event is credited as being the first air show in Western Canada. The year was 1911 and to celebrate the opening of the $30,000 Lethbridge Exhibition building Eugene Ely, a famous American flyer was hired for $1500 to demonstrate the flying machine. His Glenn Curtiss biplane was shipped in and he made two short flights; one seven and the other 13 minutes from the site of today’s exhibition track. Note the same barns found in the picture below can be seen from this location today. Three months later Ely was dead. Earlier in January 1911 he had made history in San Francisco Bay when he made the first landing of an airplane on the deck of a ship. On October 19, 1911, while flying at an exhibition in Macon, Georgia, his plane was late pulling out of a dive and crashed. Ely jumped clear of the wrecked aircraft, but his neck was broken, and he died a few minutes later.

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PLANNING

Today was devoted to geocaching. I set up an early morning route for 11 caches in north Lethbridge. I found 10 and was unable to look for the 11th because of muggles. I came home and worked out an afternoon route for 10 caches in south Lethbridge. This time I found 9 caches and was unable to look for the 10th because of muggles. I came home and then set out again in the early evening, this time looking for the two I missed earlier as well as 6 new caches in south Lethbridge. I found one of the earlier muggled caches and 5 new caches and missed one more due to muggles. My total number of finds for today was 25 out of 25 (muggles preventing a search don't count). This is almost twice as many as my previous record for a single day. I doubt I will try to beat this but one never knows ...

OUTCOME

This was my 18th search of the day, and the 8th on my afternoon route. Once again I was able to park near the cache area and made a fast find.

Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:

Love the photo! SL. TFTC.

Here are a few photos:

Cache area

Cache site

GeeCee with container

I am now 18/18 for today.

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GC29881	The Start of Lethbridge's Aviation History	N 49° 41.295 W 112° 46.816
	Difficulty 1; Terrain 1.5; size micro; Creator: smartee Date First Hidden: 5/26/2010 Date Last Found: 7/06/2010	Lethbridge
Description	This event is credited as being the first air show in Western Canada. The year was 1911 and to celebrate the opening of the $30,000 Lethbridge Exhibition building Eugene Ely, a famous American flyer was hired for $1500 to demonstrate the flying machine. His Glenn Curtiss biplane was shipped in and he made two short flights; one seven and the other 13 minutes from the site of today’s exhibition track. Note the same barns found in the picture below can be seen from this location today. Three months later Ely was dead. Earlier in January 1911 he had made history in San Francisco Bay when he made the first landing of an airplane on the deck of a ship. On October 19, 1911, while flying at an exhibition in Macon, Georgia, his plane was late pulling out of a dive and crashed. Ely jumped clear of the wrecked aircraft, but his neck was broken, and he died a few minutes later.
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