The Curtiss Aviation Book (1912)

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“An engrossing book. ...The most human book on aviation ever written.” -The Continent, 1912In "The Curtiss Aviation Book," Curtiss tells how he changed from a boy working as a messenger for the Eastman Kodak Works to a pioneer aeronaut, in a few years; how, with Lieutenant “Tom” Selfridge, Alexander Graham Bell, and J. A. D. McCurdy, he was making public flights before the Wrights had finished the...

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Like Orville Wright’s book on aviation, this is flying history directly from one of the guys who made it happen. Very readable and understandable, even though it was written in 1912, less than 10 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, it als...



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xperiments; how it feels to win an international cup, or to drop into a “hole in the air” over the Hudson.Curtiss made the first officially witnessed flight in North America, won a race at the world's first international air meet in France, and made the first long-distance flight in the United States. His contributions in designing and building aircraft led to the formation of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of 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 predominant in the inter-war and World War II eras.Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1878 – 1930) was an American aviation 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 (AEA), a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia to build flying machines.