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    Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He...
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    The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore...
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  • needed] In 1914, Glenn Curtiss had recently exhausted the appeal process in a patent infringement legal battle with the Wrights. Curtiss sought to prove...
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    The Curtiss JN "Jenny" is a series of biplanes built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and...
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    Curtiss V-8 motorcycle was a 269 cu in (4,410 cc) V8 engine-powered motorcycle designed and built by aviation and motorcycling pioneer Glenn Curtiss that...
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    The Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and Gardens is a historic home located at 500 Deer Run in Miami Springs, Florida and open to the public as an event space...
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    The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum is a transportation museum in Hammondsport, New York with a focus on the early aviator Glenn H. Curtiss. The 60,000 square...
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    aviation pioneer, Glenn Curtiss, in an attempt to collect licensing fees. In 1910, they won their initial lawsuit against Curtiss, when Federal Judge...
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    recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 13,859. The city was founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, "The Father of Naval Aviation", and James Bright, during the famous...
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    the design concept. The aircraft was designed by Glenn Curtiss and his team, and manufactured by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, with the hull built...
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  • The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is an American manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations...
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    Aerodrome on short test flights Glenn Curtiss and his team made with it in 1914. The Smithsonian had allowed Curtiss to make major modifications to the...
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    The Curtiss Model E is an early aircraft developed by Glenn Curtiss in the United States in 1911. Essentially a refined and enlarged version of the later...
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    USS Curtiss (AV-4) was the first purpose-built seaplane tender constructed for the United States Navy. She was named for Glenn Curtiss, an American naval...
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    prompted a collaboration between the American and British air pioneers: Glenn Curtiss and John Cyril Porte, spurred financially by the nationalistically motivated...
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  • opportunities" because of it. The Curtiss Motorcycles name is a reference to aviation and motorcycle pioneer Glenn Curtiss. Chambers had defended the Confederate...
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    Opa-locka was founded in 1926 by American aviator and industrialist Glenn Curtiss, who was inspired by the Middle Eastern folk tales of the One Thousand...
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    generally recognized motorcycle speed records were set unofficially by Glenn Curtiss, using aircraft engines of his own manufacture, first in 1903, when...
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    restored. In 1914, Glenn Curtiss had recently exhausted the appeal process in a patent infringement legal battle with the Wrights. Curtiss sought to prove...
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    over credit for the invention of the aileron. The Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss fought a years-long legal battle over the Wright patent of 1906, which...
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  • is now being sold. Originally known as 'Hammondsport High School, Glenn H. Curtiss Memorial,' the school building most recently served grades 4-6. The...
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    21 did not achieve sustained self-powered flight. Aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss built his Autoplane in 1917. It had a pusher propeller for flight, with...
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  • Connecticut Glenn Curtiss House, Miami Springs, Florida, listed on the NRHP Lua Curtiss House I, Miami Springs, Florida, listed on the NRHP Lua Curtiss House...
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    The Curtiss Aerocar was a multi-purpose, fifth-wheeled trailer designed by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and built in Opa-locka and Coral Gables, Florida and Detroit...
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    Robert K. Heaton, Gordon J. Chelune, Jack L. Talley, Gary G. Kay, and Glenn Curtiss. Stimulus cards are shown to the participant and the participant is...
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    Glenn Curtiss, Léon Delagrange, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie. The British Royal Aero Club followed in 1910 and the Aero Club of America in 1911 (Glenn...
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    designed and built by Glenn Curtiss. After his success with designing aircraft for the Aerial Experiment Association, Glenn Curtiss formed his own company...
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    impact, one of its members, Glenn Curtiss, later established a commercial venture that would ultimately become the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company...
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    airplanes were developed and tested on Keuka Lake by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss. The Y-shaped empties into another Finger Lake, Seneca Lake, at the...
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    temporary measures. The U.S. Navy and Glenn Curtiss experienced two firsts during January 1911. On 27 January, Curtiss flew the first seaplane from the water...
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