Glenn Curtiss Pioneer Of Aviation
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Glenn Curtiss Pioneer Of Aviation

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Full Title

Glenn Curtiss Pioneer Of Aviation
Author(s)

Alden Hatch
Edition
ISBN

9781461749318, 9781599211459
Publisher

Lyons Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A classic biography returns to print after 60 years! Although the Wright Brothers are remembered for performing the first human flight, Glenn Curtiss stands as the most important aviator in American history. Like his friend Alexander Graham Bell, Curtiss was a master inventor as well as a daredevil. He won the first airplane race in history (the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup), and he was the first pilot to take off from and land an airplane on the deck of a ship. He invented the twin flying boat, which became a mainstay for the Allies during the First World War, and his NC-4 Flying Boat performed the first transatlantic flight in 1919—eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight. Curtiss planes eventually trained 95 percent of all American pilots in the first half of the 20th century. Fans of aviation, history and compelling biographies of famous Americans such as Howard Hughes will be delighted to read about Glenn Curtiss.

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