CURTISS ALBUM 1910

 

Cleveland to Cedar Point      It was in 1910 that Glenn H. Curtiss risked his life to fly from Cleveland to Cedar point and return, setting a new world record for over-water flight. At the Early Bird reunion in Cleveland, the 25th anniversary of that achievement will be observed with fitting ceremonies. from CHIRP - SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 1935 - DETROIT MICH. courtesy of Steve Remington - CollectAir

 

Glen Curtis Leaving Euclid Beach, Cleveland, Ohio for Cedar Point, Ohio on World's Record Flight over Water Collection of Richard Etherton, 9-8-04

 

Back in the days when this picture was taken, vast strides were being made in man's effort to fly in heavier-than-air machines. Here is a splendid photo of Glenn H. Curtiss on his famous Albany-to-New York flight in the year 1910, fifty years ago. From the EB CHIRP, June 1960, No. 63

 

Harvard-Boston's Great Aero Meet - Boston, Mass. Aug 19. Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: August 19, 1910, Transcribed by Bob Davis - 9-2-03      "No aviation meet held in this country and probably none yet held in the world has had such a representative list of aviators as is assured in the Harvard-Boston aero meet, September 3 to September 13, according to the list of entrants to date announced tonight. The entry list is truly international and includes seventeen individual aviators and eleven types of air navigating machines. There is certain to be keen competition for the $40,000 hung up as prizes in a dozen events. The entrants follow:

Walter Brookins Arthur Johnson Glenn H. Curtiss Charles F. Willard M. Didier Masson A.V. Roe, J. Graham White William M. Hilliard J. M. All_as Ernest P. Lincoln, Clifford D. Harmon Captain Thomas Baldwin Jacques Delesseps Dr. W. P. Christmas, John G. Stratton Horace F. Kearner Greely S. Curtis

Wright biplanes Wright biplanes Curtiss biplanes Curtiss biplanes Vendome aeroplane Roe Triplane Farman biplane & Bleriot monoplane; Herring-Burgess biplane Harvard biplane;         Christmas biplane Burgess-Curtiss aeroplane Pfitzer monoplane Bleriot monoplane

 

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