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Atwood lands on the White House lawn after flying 576 miles from Boston

Taft walks out to meet him; the pilot took his first flying lesson just three months ago.

Eight years after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, aviation was still a novelty act, not a mode of travel. Harry Nelson Atwood, who had taken his first flying lesson only three months earlier, changed that impression on July 14, 1911, when he touched down on the White House's South Lawn after a 576-mile journey from Boston. President William Howard Taft walked out to greet him, and the Aero Club of Washington later struck him a gold medal for the feat…

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