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Arthur Roy Smith (February 27, 1890 - February 12, 1926) was an American pilot. After Charles Ames, he was the second overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.〔 ==Early life and career== He was born on February 27, 1890 in Fort Wayne, Indiana to James F. Smith and Ida Krick. In 1910, his parents mortgaged their home for $1,800 so that he could build a plane, on which he spent six months; however, he crashed it on his first flight, destroying everything but the motor. However, he quickly became a celebrated stunt pilot, notable for flying at night; he was one of the pioneers of skywriting at night using flares attached to his aircraft. Katherine Stinson, one of America's first female stunt pilots, was inspired to compete against him by this feat, and the competition between her, Smith, and other men received widespread press coverage. On May 14, 1915, fellow aviator Lincoln Beachey, who was the official stunt flyer at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, died after crashing into the bay. Art Smith (who was racing his "Baby Cars" at the fair) was hired to take Beachey's place and flew his airplane for spectators for the duration of the exposition.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=kzrE2fXazUAC&pg=PT236&lpg=PT236&dq=%22art+smith%22+%22lincoln+beachey%22+replaced+1915&source=bl&ots=7InCq7C7ra&sig=xW5Tq4hejnmjXcqB5bV_Ot7-gb8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_coQVP6GOOGgigKFj4CwDg&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22art%20smith%22%20%22lincoln%20beachey%22%20replaced%201915&f=false〕 Smith made two trips to Asia, in 1916 and 1917; his aerobatics demonstrations in Korea during those trips are believed to have inspired both An Chang-nam (Korea's first male pilot) and Kwon Ki-ok (Korea's first female pilot) to learn to fly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Republic of Korea Air Force )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Art Smith (pilot)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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