83-8674) For aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss ... a Brit and an American to share the honor. Cyril Porte of the Royal Navy was named pilot, and George Hallett, a mechanic and Curtiss employee ...

The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York, honors the memory of an aviation pioneer. Much more than a leader in flight, Curtiss began innovation on bicycles, leading to motorcycles and ...

Designed in 1906, Glenn Curtiss' first ... of Speed” exhibition. American aviation, Kinney says, “all comes back to this V-8 engine on the motorcycle.” Curtiss died young, after ...