There are many things that one might want to be remembered for. A fine physician, a pioneer aviator, a renown aeronautical researcher, an inspired inventor but perhaps not as the greatest charlatan ever to see his name associated with an airplane, even though his scout fighter the Christmas Bullet had a perfect kill record… it killed everyone who ever tried to fly it!

The AEA Redwing

One of Christmas’s Patents

The Christmas Bullet

The Christmas Bullet

The Liberty 6 Engine

Dr Christmas

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