While taking flying lessons in Chicago, Robinson flew this Nieuport French airplane with a 60-horsepower Anzani rotary engine of Italian design with a tractor movement. (Description taken from Grinnell Then and Now, Grinnell Herald-Register)
Billy Robinson piloting biplane while other men refuel. Location: Lachine, Canada on October 8, 1913. Wheel base of airplane is on skids. Fuel cans nearby.
Men in suits and hats gathered around Billy Robinson's airplane on grass field. Workman appears to be adjusting wing structure. Skids are utilized as part of wheel base.
Billy Robinson designed and built this monoplane and its radial engine. In 1914 he set a speed and distance record with it, carrying mail from Des Moines to Kentland, Indiana. (Description taken from Grinnell in Vintage Postcards by Bill Menner)
Billy Robinson's monoplane next to his hangar in west Grinnell. The hangar was later transported in three parts to the Ben and Harold Buck farm west of Grinnell in Jasper County. (Description taken from Grinnell Then and Now published by the Grinnell…
