Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Pusher biplane with one 50-horsepower Curtiss V-8 engine. Fabric covered surfaces light yellow. Struts and landing ...

Tom Murphy is likely the only Curtiss Pusher pilot in the Pacific Northwest, possibly the country. In 1995, the antique airplane pilot and mechanic flew the plane, also known as the Curtiss Model D, ...

Eugene Ely flies his Curtiss Pusher biplane from the USS Birmingham, in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on Nov. 14, 1910. (Navy) On Nov. 14, 1910, the U.S. military took its first step toward linking flight ...

Biplane is a replica of the first to soar over Durango In September 1913, curious Durangoans gathered to witness aviation history on the mesa that decades later would be home to Fort Lewis College.

How do you re-create a 1912 airplane when you can’t find a 130-year-old airplane builder to help you? You do what those craftsmen did: You keep trying until something works. That was part of the ...

At 11:01 a.m., on Jan. 18, 1911, Eugene Ely, flying a Curtiss pusher, landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania (ACR 4) at anchor in San Francisco Bay. At 11:58 ...

In celebration of 100 years of Naval Aviation, meet Bob Coolbaugh, who built and pilots the only flying replica of Eugene B. Ely's 1911 Curtiss Model D, the "Curtiss Pusher." Bring a bag lunch and ...

A legacy of America’s first licensed airplane pilot is slowly taking shape inside a Vancouver warehouse. The project is a full-sized replica of a 1912 Curtiss Pusher biplane — an aircraft that made ...

On Monday, August 20, Lockheed Martin will celebrate its Centennial with employees at the company's Middle River facility and on Saturday August 18, and Sunday, August 19, the Glenn L. Martin Maryland ...

On Nov. 19, 1916, Ruth Law climbed into her already-obsolete Curtiss pusher biplane and took off from Chicago. Six hours (and 590 miles) later she touched down at the fairgrounds in Hornell, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Pusher biplane with one 50-horsepower Curtiss V-8 engine. Fabric covered surfaces light yellow. Struts and landing ...