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- ↑ Howard Lee Scamehorn. Balloons to Jets: A Century of Aeronautics in Illinois, 1855-1955. p. 71.
- ↑ Aeronautics: 8. 15 January 1914.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ Glenn Dale Angle. Airplane Engine Encyclopedia. p. 429.
- ↑ Aerial Age: 330. 29 May 1916.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Otto Timm" . Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ↑ Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy, Volume 10. p. 68.
- ↑ Bill Menner. Grinnell in Vintage Postcards. p. 110.
- ↑ Aerial Age: 81. 3 April 1916.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ Scott M. Fisher. Eastern Iowa's Aviation Heritage. p. 23.
- ↑ Aerial Age: 783. 13 August 1917.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ Janice Beck Stock. Amazing Iowa. p. 33.