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The Ochoaplane—also

called an “aeromobile”—

weighed 800 pounds

and had pneumatic tires

and wings that could be

folded back, allowing

the owner to store it

conveniently in a barn

or garage, ca. 1909.

(Victor Ochoa Papers,

Archives Center, National

Museum of American

History, Behring Center,

Smithsonian Institution.)

Letter to Victor Ochoa from the U.S. Navy expressing interest in Ochoa’s

Ornithopter. The Mexican American inventor corresponded with the Navy

while imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary for neutrality law violations.

(Victor Ochoa Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American

History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution.)