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Citation Glenn Curtiss Early Aviation Photography Collection, Acc. XXXX.0682, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Arrangement The fifty-four photographs have been assigned "7A" ...
The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York, honors the memory of an aviation pioneer. Much more than a leader in flight, Curtiss began innovation on bicycles, leading to motorcycles and ...
Designed in 1906, Glenn Curtiss' first V-8 motorcycle required a longer, sturdier frame than any previous bike to support the massive weight of the engine. Mark Avino / NASM The 1907 Curtiss V-8 ...
Curtiss believed Goupil's design was a way to show it predated the Wright Brothers plane. So he built the Duck at his Buffalo, New York, plant and on Jan. 19, 1917, powered by a Curtiss OXX-6 engine.