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App developers like Caroline Hu Flexer, co-founder of kids-app maker Duck Duck Moose, says promoting her apps with the group has helped her Palo Alto company compete with new kids-app developers like Walt Disney Co. and Nickelodeon.

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Rep. Flexer, who had always worked “behind the scenes” in politics, did not think of running until she worked at the state capitol and saw men her age considering political office.

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Prior to Flexer's realization there had a been a few rudimentary in-flight movie screenings.

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The airlines weren't Initially interested in Flexer's wares.

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Flexer, a film buff who owned a small chain of movie houses, was on a transcontinental flight in 1956 when he, as he realized

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But the next time you send one of those "I'm on a plane!" tweets, just remember the big dream of David Flexer.

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Flexer's new company, Inflight Motion Pictures, then went looking for an in-flight partner.

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The first film shown, on a flight from New York to Los Angeles 50 years ago today, was eureka! moment by the technology's mastermind, David Flexer.

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Flexer decided to see if he could bring his business to the sky.

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But after three years of development and $1 million of his own money, Flexer's team developed a horizontal design that projected large 16mm reels, weighed less than 100 pounds and was sky-ready.

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