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Boonville Weekly Enquirer, Boonville, Indiana, USMay311912Page2Boonville Weekly Enquirer, May 31, 1912Lincoln Beachey and Horace Kearney at Evansville in 1912.Airpost Journal, November 1934.Lincoln Beachey, c.1912Beachey was killed in 1915 when he crashed into San Francisco Bay while performing an inverted loop. He was only 26 years old. By the 1920s, San Francisco schoolchildren had composed a jump-rope song in his honor.Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dreamTo go up to heaven in a flying machine.The machine broke down, and down he fell.Instead of going to heaven he went to . . .Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dream