Bicycle racing Motorcycle racing Air racing Naval aviation Flying boats Transatlantic flight Founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908, Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association, a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, to build flying machines.
Curtiss won a race at the world's first international air meet in France and made the first long-distance flight in the U.S. His contributions in designing and building aircraft led to the formation of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, which later merged into the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. His company built aircraft for the U.S. Army and Navy, and, during the years leading up to World War I, his experiments with seaplanes led to advances in naval aviation. Curtiss civil and military aircraft were some of the most important types in the interwar and World War II eras.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He...
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909 – 1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore...
successful. In 1914, GlennCurtiss had recently exhausted the appeal process in a patent infringement legal battle with the Wrights. Curtiss sought to prove...
The Curtiss JN "Jenny" was a series of biplanes built by the GlennCurtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and...
aviation pioneer, GlennCurtiss, in an attempt to collect licensing fees. In 1910, they won their initial lawsuit against Curtiss, when Federal Judge...
The Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and Gardens is a historic home located at 500 Deer Run in Miami Springs, Florida and open to the public as an event space...
Aerodrome on short test flights GlennCurtiss and his team made with it in 1914. The Smithsonian had allowed Curtiss to make major modifications to the...
The Curtiss Model E was an early aircraft developed by GlennCurtiss in the United States in 1911. Essentially a refined and enlarged version of the later...
opportunities" because of it. The Curtiss Motorcycles name is a reference to aviation and motorcycle pioneer GlennCurtiss. Chambers had defended the Confederate...
over credit for the invention of the aileron. The Wright brothers and GlennCurtiss fought a years-long legal battle over the Wright patent of 1906, which...
restored. In 1914, GlennCurtiss had recently exhausted the appeal process in a patent infringement legal battle with the Wrights. Curtiss sought to prove...
The Curtiss Autoplane, invented by GlennCurtiss in 1917, is widely considered the first attempt to build a roadable aircraft. Although the vehicle was...
The Death of DJ Junebug AEA June Bug, an early aircraft designed by GlennCurtiss and built in 1908 June bug (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage "June Bug"...
Robert K. Heaton, Gordon J. Chelune, Jack L. Talley, Gary G. Kay, and GlennCurtiss. Stimulus cards are shown to the participant and the participant is...
speaker GlennCurtiss (1878–1930), American aviation pioneer GlennCurtiss (1878–1930), American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane...
aeronautical expert in the 1910–14 lawsuits between the Wright brothers and GlennCurtiss. Received A.B., University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1883, A.M., 1885...
airplanes were developed and tested on Keuka Lake by aviation pioneer GlennCurtiss. The Y-shaped empties into another Finger Lake, Seneca Lake, at the...
the attention and admiration of pioneer aviator GlennCurtiss who gave her flying lessons at the Curtiss flying school, in Hammondsport, New York, America's...
GlennCurtiss, Léon Delagrange, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie. The British Royal Aero Club followed in 1910 and the Aero Club of America in 1911 (Glenn...
Attended by most of the important aviators of the time, including GlennCurtiss, who won the Gordon Bennett Trophy competition. This show inspired John...
The Curtiss Flying School was started by GlennCurtiss to compete against the Wright Flying School of the Wright brothers. The first example was located...
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