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Learning to Fly with Tommy - Episode 5 Premiere!

  • Sat, December 12, 2020
  • 11:00 AM
  • YouTube

Join us for weekly premieres of our five-part web series exploring local aviation history with the Old Time Flight Instructor. These short episodes will be premiering on The History Center YouTube channel every Saturday morning at 11am November 14th - December 19th. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!

Episode 1 - Welcome  to the Class of 1918 - Premieres 11/14
Congratulations! You are accepted for flight instruction in Ithaca’s Thomas School of Aviation. Just one catch: The Year is 1918.

Episode 2 - Tour the Aeroplane Factory with Mr. Oliver Thomas - Premieres 11/21
Now that you’re flying a Tommy, see where these. magnificent machines are built.

Episode 3 - How to Act in Silent Films with Aeroplanes - Premieres 12/5
Tips and gossip from “A Romance of the Air” star Edith Day.

Episode 4 - Celestial Navigation through the Canals of Mars - Premieres 12/12

Lansing’s eccentric astronomy professor explains extraterrestrial agriculture.

Episode 5 - Dispatches from the War Front - Premieres 12/19                         Will our hometown hero, the fearless flying ace, remember to write?



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