On This Day In 1910 Teddy Roosevelt Becomes the 1st POTUS to Fly

[Weatherman2020]

“You know, I didn’t intend to do it,” Roosevelt told the New York Times. “But when I saw the thing there, I could not resist it.”

The plane was in the air before the crowd realized what had happened and who was aboard.

Teddy is one of those I would have loved to sit down and have a beer with. Gallantry in war, love of nature, gets shot and finishes his speech, and jumps onto a new fangled contraption known as an aero plane.

This Day in History: Teddy Roosevelt, first President to fly

On this day in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first United States President to fly in an airplane. Presidents board airplanes on a routine basis these days, but back then, the move was viewed as inherently risky. “Col. Roosevelt defied death late yesterday,” one 1910 newspaper blared...

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[JGalt]

TR was a badass.

 

[whitehall]

Two years later TR will be the victim of an attempted assassination. As a matter of fact it will be 110 years on October 14 that T.R. stayed on his feet during a speech with a .38 caliber bullet in his chest. They don't make 'em like that anymore.