Curtiss Model N
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The Curtiss Model N was a military trainer used primarily by the United States Navy during World War I.
U.S. Navy N-9s and Curtiss Model Fs at Naval Air Station Key West
Preserved Curtiss N-9H exhibited at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida in 1975.
A Curtiss N-9 at Naval Air Station Pensacola
Glenn Curtiss
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908, Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association, a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, to build flying machines.
Glenn Curtiss on his V-8 motorcycle in 1907
The June Bug on its prize-winning historic flight with Curtiss at the controls
Souvenir postcard of the Grande Semaine d'Aviation, 1909