Arizona Capitol Times Staff//May 20, 2016//[read_meter]

Tucson’s love of airplanes started early. In 1910, a crowd of thousands gathered to see Charles E. Hamilton take off from Drachman’s Elysian Grove. Pilots raved about the great weather...

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