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04/07/11 - posted by Roy Mize

San Francisco's First Airport-Ocean BeaFound you You should research this. Go to Webpage and scroll down to Christofferson = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = http://www.aerofiles.com/_ca.html "Christofferson's airport at SF's Great Beach with its "lumber" runway, 1914. Italian pilot Silvio Petterossi is seated in his Blériot. (Donna Ewald glass-plate negative coll)" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Found your project when researching Baldwin's first parachute jump from a gas balloon - started on beach below Sutro Heights in 1886. If you want to add Baldwin to your project, I would be happy to share my research and story. See also Cliff House Project: http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/history/baldwin/baldwin.htm (My dates differ from his but we both may be right.) I'm an amateur historian who is almost finished writing a two volume set of stories about forgotten early aviation events. I wrote about Christofferson. Roy Mize roy@workplans.com Mountain View, CA