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ABSTRACT Inspired watching Glenn Curtiss landing to refuel on his historic 1910 flight from Albany to New York City, the almost 5-year old John McDonald "Johnny" Miller decided he wanted to be a pilot, a decision reinforced five years later in a chance encounter with famed aviatrix Ruth Law (3rd licensed woman pilot in America) at the Curtiss Flying school in Mineola, Long Island. Miller taught himself to fly in used WWI Jenny from a text by Captain Horatio Barber, a book Miller still had in his family home in Poughkeepsie, NY eighty years later. His career in aviation, begun in a $1,500 used WWI aircraft, would span eight decades and see him as an Eastern Airline pilot flying jets - a career captured in his email address adopted in his ninth decade from jennys2jets, but Miller was most famous for being the man who beat Amelia Earhart in the first transcontinental Autogiro flight in 1931 and the 1939-1940 experimental Autogiro Airmail Route between the 30th Street Post Office roof in
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