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Tod Shriver
BornTheodore Corwin Shriver
June 3, 1873
Manchester, Ohio (Adams County)
DiedDecember 2, 1911
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Other names"Slim"
OccupationAviator
Years active1905-1911

Tod Corwin Shriver (1873-1911) was a U.S. aviator and exhibition pilot often associated with pioneer Glenn Curtiss. Shriver was a mechanic for Glenn Curtiss, much in the way Charlie Taylor was for The Wright Brothers, and accompanied him to France in 1909 to participate in the historic Rheims air meet officially Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne. In motion picture footage of Curtiss and his Reims Racer in France, Shriver can be seen joking with Curtiss and others. The footage is preserved in the National Air and Space Museum. Shriver began his association in aviation working with balloonist Thomas Scott Baldwin and in 1906 was working in Curtiss's Hammondsport factory. Shriver in 1910 became a pilot himself on the classic Curtiss pusher type. He also built his own machine in the summer and flew it the first time he tried. He was widely traveled in the final year of his life accompanying Thomas Scott Baldwin and James C. Mars to Hawaii, The Philippines, Australia, China and Japan. Later he made flights in South America. In Puerto Rico he made what was probably the first flight on the island but was the first pilot to die there when his machine fell 200 feet into a sugar cane field.

References

  1. findagrave.com
  2. The Courier Democrat Langdon N.D. October 13, 1910
  3. The Public Defender December 7, 1911
  4. Puerto Rico Flyer "The Beginning of Aviation in Puerto Rico 1911-1929"

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Sep 16, 1911 Édouard Nieuport
Sep 17, 1911 Reginald Archibald Cammell
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Oct 31, 1911 John Montgomery
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Jul 1, 1912 Harriet Quimby
Jul 5, 1912 Eustace Loraine
Sep 11, 1912 Paul Peck
Sep 28, 1912 Lewis C. Rockwell
Sep 28, 1912 Frank S. Scott
Dec 15, 1912 Wilfred Parke
May 27, 1913 Desmond Arthur
Aug 7, 1913Samuel Franklin Cody
Sep 13, 1913Aurel Vlaicu
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