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Firemen hose down the smoking wreckage of de Pinedo’s Bellanca after he crashed and was killed on takeoff from Floyd Bennett Field on September 3, 1933. (Imagno/Getty Images)
Firemen hose down the smoking wreckage of de Pinedo’s Bellanca after he crashed and was killed on takeoff from Floyd Bennett Field on September 3, 1933. (Imagno/Getty Images)