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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.
Sep 23, 1996 · Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, shown here in 1909. (Library of Congress) Curtiss made his first flight on his 30th birthday—May 21, 1908—in White Wing, a design of the Aerial Experiment Association, a group led by Alexander Graham Bell.
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909 – 1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
The plane was first piloted by Baldwin on May 18,1908, and then flown by Lt. Thomas Selfridge, who became the first Army officer to fly an aircraft. Curtiss then flew the plane on May 21,1908. Two days later, John McCurdy and the plane crashed during a landing and was damaged beyond repair.
Jun 29, 2022 · Curtiss was an innovator with motorcycles before he ever touched an airplane; and before his time with motorcycles he made and raced bicycles. This is his story, from setting records on the ground, to setting them in the air, and making an indelible mark on aviation. Glenn Curtiss sits in an airplane.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss by David Langley Glenn H. Curtiss was a noted motorcycle builder and racer, who built and produced engines for airships as early as 1906. In 1908, he became involved in the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a group founded by Alexander Graham Bell.
Curtiss sold his first military airplane, the Model D Type IV, to the Signal Corps in April 1911, and continued to build more powerful engines and new airplanes for the military.
