By Alden Hatch
ISBN-10: 1599211459
ISBN-13: 9781599211459
A vintage biography returns to print after 60 years!
Although the Wright Brothers are remembered for appearing the 1st human flight, Glenn Curtiss stands because the most vital aviator in American background. Like his good friend Alexander Graham Bell, Curtiss used to be a grasp inventor in addition to a daredevil. He gained the 1st plane race in historical past (the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup), and he was once the 1st pilot to take off from and land an plane at the deck of a boat. He invented the dual flying boat, which turned a mainstay for the Allies throughout the First global battle, and his NC-4 Flying Boat played the 1st transatlantic flight in 1919—eight years ahead of Charles Lindbergh's flight. Curtiss planes ultimately informed ninety five percentage of all American pilots within the first half the twentieth century. lovers of aviation, background and compelling biographies of well-known americans equivalent to Howard Hughes should be thrilled to examine Glenn Curtiss.
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