AEA Silver Dart
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The Silver Dart was a derivative of an early aircraft built by a Canadian/U.S. team, which after many successful flights in Hammondsport, New York, earlier in 1908, was dismantled and shipped to Badde
The AEA Silver Dart in flight.
The Silver Dart replica taxies to the starting point for its commemorative flight on 22 February 2009. It was celebrating Canada's Centennial of Flight a day early, due to predicted unfavourable weather.
Silver Dart replica
AEA June Bug
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The June Bug was an American "pioneer era" biplane built by the Aerial Experiment Association in 1908 and flown by Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The aircraft was the first American airplane to fly at least 1
AEA Silver Dart
…By the time the Silver Dart was constructed in late 1908, it was the Aerial Experiment Association's fourth flying machine. One of its precursors, the June Bug, had already broken records. It won the Scientific American Trophy for making the first official one mile (1609 m) flight in North America. The frame…
Curtiss june bug
Curtiss in the June Bug, July 4, 1908.
Modern operational replica of the June Bug in the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York
Curtiss June Bug 3-view drawing from Aero Digest, December 1928