ARCH AND TEDDY

s dawn broke on the last day of 1910, things were looking up for Arch Hoxsey. The early bird pilot had broken the world altitude record by soaring to 11,474 feet on December 26 and won more than $6,000 in prize money at an international air meet in Los Angeles. On New Year’s Day 1911 he was to ride on the first-ever aviation float in the Rose Bowl Parade. At their Pasadena home, Hoxsey’s mother fixed her son breakfast and kissed him goodbye. She had originally agreed to go aloft with him that day