Andrew
Drew
Male
United States of America
1885-02-00
Missouri, United States of America
1913-06-12
Bath Township, Ohio, United States of America
Pioneer Aviator, student of Orville Wright; he died as he was performing an exhibition just outside of Lima, Ohio. His plane fell 300 feet in flames.
He began as a balloonist, then was accepted as a student in the Wright School of Aviation in August of 1911. He described his personal moodswing as rather dramatic: "When you enter the Wright School of Aviation here, they warn you of two things - a dismal feeling that comes in the beginning of the course that you don't really want to fly so much after all, and the belief that comes after you make your first trip alone that you can fly from New York to San Francisco immediately.... After my twlefth lesson, when I had flown the machine around the field several times without any assistance, I ceased calling my instructor "Mr. Turpin" and said, 'Well Turpi, I guess I am a birdman.'"
1904 - 1904
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3
1
Round 1
Hugh McKittrick Jones 1 *
Andrew Drew
6-4
6-1
Round 1
Andrew Drew 1 *
George Henry Stadel
6-8
6-3
6-2
Round 2
John Crosby Neely jr. 1 *
Andrew Drew
6-1
6-1