H.M. Rhinehart took Helen Badgley aloft in his Wright biplane in 1916 for a 10-minute flight from the Mineola, New York airfield, in a sequence for the Thanhouser film, A Modern Monte Cristo, released in 1917.
H.M. Rhinehardt
A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.
Watch H.M. RhinehardtOpens A Modern Monte Cristo (1917)
Biography
Q. David Bowers, Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History. This is the entry in full.
Filmography

