W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
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