A Dirigible Kidnapped My Wife

Georgia Heaton becomes a reluctant aviator

Roy Knabenshue flying the California Arrow in 1904. Pubic domain image.

She was only supposed to stand in the basket for a few photographs. The tether lines would keep the airship on the ground

When the best-laid plan went astray, Georgia Heaton drifted away for a ride that no one would forget.

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Richard J. Goodrich - The Peripatetic Historian
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