Glenn
Curtiss, San Diego aviation pioneer. The San Diego Historical Society's
web site has several pages devoted to Curtiss. Includes audio and a transcript
of an interview with an eyewitness to Curtiss' first flight from water.
Curtiss Museum (official site).
The official web site on the museum in Hammondsport. Includes information on
its programs and collection.
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Brief History of U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers. A web page from the U.S.
Navy Public Affairs Library web site. Includes photographs of the first
take-off from a ship and T.G. Ellyson, the first naval aviator.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
History. This page contains links to several web articles about Glenn
Curtiss, whose company eventually merged with that of the Wright brothers to
form a business that remains in the aerospace industry.
The First Across Organization.
Web site of an organization that is recreating the Navy-Curtiss NC-4, first
aircraft to cross the Atlantic, and her flight, eight years before Charles
Lindbergh.
Glenn Curtiss Memorial
Park. Web site soliciting donations to purchase a piece of land on the
shore of New York's Lake Keuka for the creation of a public park in memory of
Glenn Curtiss.