Curtiss easily set a distance record and took credit for the first true cross-country, point-to-point flight in the U.S. The feat also changed the outlook for aviation, confirming its potential as ...

Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss was born in Hammondsport ... In 1908, he won the Scientific American Trophy for the first public flight of at least one kilometer with an American plane.

Glenn Curtiss almost didn't. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 76°F. Wednesday, June 4th 2025 Daily News e-Edition. ... L.I., the nation’s first exhibition flight.

The first years of flight, ... Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies. By Lawrence Goldstone. Ballantine, 386 pp. 3.5 stars out of four.

Beginning with just a handful of flights in a rickety dirigible, they helped change the course of flight itself. Without them, Glenn Curtiss, Lincoln Beachey, and many others might never have ...

Not Glenn Curtiss. Now a group wants to change that ... three years before the brothers’ first official flight. But as I said, I’m a Wright guy. Later that day, I meet another one of the ...

Trafford Doherty, executive director of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, holds up a one-eighth-scale replica of the aviation pioneer's June Bug airplane at the actual site where the flight took place ...

In 1910, Glenn Curtiss, a motorcycle daredevil-turned-pilot, completed America's first long-distance intercity flight, between Albany and New York City, to great fanfare, while at the helm of his ...

The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York, honors the memory of an aviation pioneer. Much more than a leader in ...