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Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (born 1886)

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Ralph Johnstone

American aviator (1880–1910)

Ralph Greenley Johnstone was the first American person to die while piloting an airplane that crashed. He and Archibald Hoxsey were known as the "heavenly twins" for their attempts to break altitude records.
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