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On this day in 1912, true to his promise a day earlier, Silas Christofferson made a spectacular flight in his 40 horse-power bi-plane from the roof of the Multnomah Hotel in downtown Portland, to Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington. The flight took 12 minutes. As reported in the Oregonian on the previous day, "Aviators have made ascents from the decks of large battleships, but there is no record that any of the large army of intrepid birdmen has to date undertaken to fly from a building the elevation of the Multnomah, estimated at 120 feet."
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