Article about early aviator, Lincoln Beachey, brother of Hillary Beachey who crashed his plane at Battle Creek on August 4, 1912. Highlighted section: Lincoln Beachey, who boasted if anyone could fit a barn door with an engine he would fly it. On of his crowd pleasers was the loop, during one Beachey's plan lost its wings and feel into San Francisco Bay, killing the twenty-eight year-old pilot (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.)