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Quick Airplane Construction and Flight

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QUICK AIRPLANE CONSTRUCTION AND FLIGHT

On this site, inventor and early aviation pioneer William Lafayette Quick and his sons designed and built the first airplane to be flown in the state of Alabama. Construction began in 1900. Awaiting an engine, it took nearly eight years to complete. Quick’s “Flying Machine” was among the first monoplanes to be flown in the United States when it went airborne on its first and only flight in April, 1908, in a pasture 1/2 mile northwest of here, across the Flint River. Restored, it is now on display at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.

ALABAMA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION – 2008

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