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AEA June BugAmerican aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss flying the AEA June Bug at Hammondsport, N.Y., on July 4, 1908, a feat that won the Scientific American Trophy for the first public flight of at least 1 km (0.6 mile) with an American airplane.
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Cross-references added. Mar 18, 2008
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