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Malcolm Loughead

PERHAPS NOBODY BETTER illustrates the overlap between early aviation and the automobile like Malcolm Loughead and his younger brother, Allan. Nor the variety of circumstance from which talent could arise in the early 20th century. Malcolm was born in 1886 to writer and newspaperwoman Flora Haines Loughead and her second husband, John Loughead. Allan was born three years later.

Neither Loughead brother attended school beyond the

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