An airborne fundraiser in Porto

Fundraisers of the early 1900s literally aimed for the sky.

 
​  While doing my homework for a themed corporate running tour last week, I came across old photographs and several reports of an epic fundraiser that took place at the long gone Porto's own Crystal Palace/Palácio de Cristal. 

Hundreds of people bought tickets to see an airplane that had been purchased solely for that purpose: to be the main attraction of that charity event!

​The following -true- story took place in Porto, late summer, in 1912. It is a perfect example of the entrepreneurial attitude of those times -  still embroidered in most Portuenses you'll meet (...)

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