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Roosevelt Takes Flight guide-history-buffs " In his careerWhile participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign in St. Louis, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was invited to fly in a biplane with aviator Arch Hoxsey. A day later, on October 12, 1910, the event was front page news. It was reported in The Times that a "broad grin of delight spread over the Colonel's face and his eyes fairly shown with pleasure" when Hoxsey invited him for a flight over St. Louis Aviation Field. "You're not going up,