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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09677.65 Author/Creator: Canadian Press Place Written: Vancouver, Canada Type: Photograph Date: 11 September 1962 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 20.5 x 25.3 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto released by Canadian Press dated September 11, 1962. Shows nine men sitting and ducking on a roof as a biplane flies over them. The embedded press release states that pilot, Les Kerr, demonstrated hedge hops, a low level flying technique used when crop dusting. The display was a part of an air show in Ladner, British Columbia.

Kerr, Les. fl 1962

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