Aeroplane Monthly 1998-12 / M.Vines - Rhinebeck revisites /Circus flying/

Karl Erickson airborne in the exposed pilot’s seat of the Curtiss D pusher. The shoulder yoke via which the ailerons are operated is clearly visible. An 80 h.p. Hall-Scott engine provides the power.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-11 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Mike Beach taxies his Curtiss Pusher at Brooklands on September 18, 1993.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey, T.Harmsworth - News

Now on display at Kermit Weeks’s Fantasy of Flight Museum at Polk City, Florida, is the Curtiss Pusher replica constructed by Mike Beach. It was formerly on show at the Brooklands Museum.

Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Corley-Smith - Birdmen of British Columbia

Charles Hamilton's Curtiss pusher biplane at Minoru Park, March 25, 1910.

Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Corley-Smith - Birdmen of British Columbia

Charles Hamilton in the air. Minoru Park, March 26, 1910.

В.Шавров - История конструкций самолетов в СССР до 1938 г. /Машиностроение/ (1)

"Кертис" сухопутный

Мировая Авиация 96

Самолет, приобретенный и обозначенный Армией США как Aeroplane No. 6, представлял собой машину типа Curtiss Model Е. Он эксплуатировался в одноместном варианте из-за малой мощности силовой установки.
Curtiss Trainer SC-2 in which Kelly and Park were killed in separate incidents.

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Первый авиатор ВМС США. 23 декабря 1910г.: лейтенант Теодор Эллисон получил приказ прибыть в авиационный центр Гленна Кертиса (Норт-Айленд, Сан-Диего) для обучения пилотированию самолета. Первые уроки Эллисону дал сам Гленн Кертис на гидроаэроплане Curtiss Navy A-1 "Triad". В 1911 году Эллисон стал первым пилотом в ВМС США.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - 1. Chronology

Eugene Ely flies from USS Birmingham (14 November 1910).

Мировая Авиация 96

Юджин Илай (иногда Ю. Эли) выполняет 14 ноября 1910 года взлет с палубы крейсера "Бирмингем" на самолете Model D. Это был первый в истории взлет самолета с палубы корабля.

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Юджин Илай, летчик-испытатель фирмы "Curtiss", вошел в историю 18 января 1911 года как первый в мире человек, посадивший самолет на корабль. Его Curtiss Model D приземлился на платформу длиной 36 м, установленную на корме легкого крейсера "Пенсильвания".

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - 1. Chronology

Ely lands on USS Pennsylvania (18 January 1911).

Aviation Historian 36 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (1)

Using a photograph of somewhat poor quality, this postcard depicts Mars flying above a Japanese crowd. It is likely that most of the spectators at these early public exhibitions had never seen an aeroplane in flight before. James Cairn “Bud” Mars (March 8, 1875-July 25, 1944) made the first flights in Hawaii, the Philippines and Korea.

Aviation Historian 36 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (1)

Shriver and several Japanese workers hold back the Curtiss as Mars warms up the engine of the Curtiss pusher biplane before one of his flying displays in Japan in 1911. By the end of that year, Shriver had been killed after falling 200ft (60m) from a Baldwin Red Devil biplane during an exhibition flight in Puerto Rico in December.

Aviation Historian 36 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (1)

Bud Mars prepares to take off from the Joto Parade Ground in Osaka, in a biplane based on the Curtiss Model D, for his first display in Japan on March 12, 1911. The flights made that day must have made a remarkable spectacle for the Japanese, less than three months after the first aeroplane flight in Japan

Aviation Historian 36 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (1)

James C. “Bud" Mars (left) and Tod Shriver pose beside Mars’s Curtiss biplane in Japan before a flight. The arrival of the American aviators in Japan coincided with a surge in popularity of postcards, and a record of these early flying exhibitions can be traced in the postcards issued to commemorate these events. Such memorabilia served as a valuable vehicle for promoting "air-mindedness" among the Japanese public.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-10 / I.Best-Devereux - Antiques at Oshkosh

Another "historic” replica was Dale Crite’s "Silver Streak” Curtiss Pusher.

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-11 / H.Levy - Oshkosh'80

A Curtiss Silver Streak 1912 Pusher reproduction.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v3

Curtiss biplane of 1911.

Aviation Historian 36 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (1)

Charles Franklin Niles, born in 1888, learned to fly with Glenn Curtiss in 1912 and participated in a race comprising a circuit of Manhattan against five other aviators in October 1913, in which he came second. This postcard shows Niles in his 75 h.p. Curtiss Headless Model D, apparently built by the Christofferson Aircraft Co.

Aviation Historian 36 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (1)

A faked image on a postcard purportedly showing Niles flying inverted in his Curtiss during one of his exhibition flights over the Aoyama Parade Ground. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Niles, in common with numerous other barnstormers of his era, met a premature death, being killed in a crash during an exhibition flight at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on June 25, 1916.

Aviation Historian 37 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (2)

Smith was renowned as a master of the loop, his ‘‘showstopper” being a series of consecutive loops often followed by a spiral descent with smoke flares illuminating his path through the sky, as depicted in this (doubtless heavily retouched) postcard. Once the “falling leaf” manoeuvre was complete, Smith would land the machine to rapturous applause.

Aviation Historian 37 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (2)

Offering a technological extravaganza never before witnessed in Japan, Smith brought five ‘‘baby racing cars” with him, which would be used to provide ground-based entertainment in the form of races in between Smith’s flying demonstrations. On occasion Smith would race the cars around the track in his aircraft.

Aviation Historian 37 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (2)

Preparing Smith’s aircraft for a flight in Japan sometime during his 1917 visit. Note the coloured bands applied to the Curtiss biplane’s rudder.

Aviation Historian 37 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (2)

The spectacle of daring stunts performed by exotic foreigners in state-of-the-art flyingmachines lent itself to the production of numerous contemporary postcards in Japan, this example depicting Art Smith in his Curtiss Model D-type preparing to take off for another of his innovative exhibition flights in Japan during 1916-17.

Aviation Historian 37 / E.Young - American aviators in Japan (2)

Bearing a special stamp with a propeller motif commemorating Smith’s visit, this postcard shows Art Smith and his mother, who accompanied the aviator on his second visit to Japan, with his Curtiss-type pusher biplane. Despite encountering some hostility on his first visit, Smith appeared happy to return the following year.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-02 / Grapevine

Mike Beach's reproduction 1911 Model D Curtiss Pusher.

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Регистрационный номерRegistry number: NX62E

Для демонстрации прогресса американской авиации в мае 1951 года фирма "Convair" публично экспонировала поставленные рядом биплан Curtiss 40-летней давности и бомбардировщик B-36D.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Convair B-36 Peacemaker - СШАUSA - 1946