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Billy Robinson with children and airplane

Billy Robinson with children in front of airplane.

Billy Robinson with Canadian school children and biplane

Billy Robinson in Montreal, Canada, with a biplane built by the National Airplane Co. and Canadian school children. (Description taken from Grinnell Then and Now published by the Grinnell Herald-Register)

Above Chatham

Billy Robinson making a cross country flight in his biplane. Photo taken in Canada.

Billy Robinson in biplane

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.

Billy Robinson in a Nieuport French airplane

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)

Airplane in field with burning haystack

Man in white clothing is Mac Crutchfield. They are burning the haystack to remove it from the airfield.

Billy Robinson's monoplane, sideview

Side view of Billy Robinson's monoplane. Tail has "The Grinnell Aeroplane Company Iowa" written on it.

Billy Robinson with Mac Crutchfield

Billy Robinson, early Grinnell (Iowa) aviator in center of photograph. Mac Crutchfield at right. Person at left is unknown

Monoplane

Postcard of Billy Robinson's monoplane positioned on grass airstrip ; open cockpit, with wire structure supporting wings.

Billy Robinson

Grinnell aviator, born September 24, 1884 in Redfield, South Dakota. Died in plane crash March 11, 1916 attempting to break the existing American altitude record of 17,000 feet. Robinson had previously attained an altitude of 14,000 feet.

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