AEA June Bug, A Pioneering V8 Bi Plane That Royally Ticked Off the Wright Brothers
30 Sep 2022, 03:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you've seen any of our recent items on the life and inventions of Glenn H. Curtiss. In that case, you'll know his habbit habit of building amazing machines.
Curtiss OX-5 V8: A Deep Dive Into America's First Great Airplane Engine
26 Sep 2022, 22:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, the Curtiss OX-5 V8 was the finest creation to ever leave Hammondsport, New York native Glenn H. Curtiss's factory. It certainly made him famous
Stunning 1918 Model E46 Opera Coupe Proves Buick Was Once Amazing, Also a Movie Star
26 May 2022, 01:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We bet you think hardtop convertible luxury cars were some sort of novel technology. But no, dear friends, it's been around since before any of us were born.
Glenn H Curtiss Museum: a Former Wine Factory Full of Vintage Cars, Bikes, and Airplanes
23 May 2022, 03:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As many as two or three dozen more classic bikes of both Curtiss's and other bikemakers' creations are laid out in self-contained sections of the museum
Forget Harley and Indian, Curtiss Built the Coolest Antique American Motorcycles
23 May 2022, 02:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By the late 1890s, Curtiss ran three different retail bicycle stores and repair shops in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York.
Two P-40 Warhawks Collided Mid-Air 78 Years Ago, Their Remains are Now Nearly Restored
22 May 2022, 22:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It was a task that volunteers at the Glenn H Curtiss Museum cordially took on when the staff purchased the airframe and the rest of the remaining parts in 2011.
35 Years Before the Regal Turbo, Buick Helped Build This Jet Engine for American Warplanes
22 May 2022, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Buick didn't invent or design the jet engine they'd go on to build during times of war. That was Curttiss-Wright, and even they copied it from the Brits
Wright R-3350: The Underappreciated Muscle Behind Enola Gay, Bockscar, and So Much More
22 May 2022, 19:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though it was larger, more powerful, and more capable than a Merlin, or even the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, the Duplex-Cyclone is far less celebrated
Harley-Davidson XA: The U.S. Army's All-American, Unused Answer to German BMWs in WWII
21 May 2022, 16:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It must be said, Allied forces, the Americans especially, were downright jealous of the Axis and their BMW motorcycles during the invasion of French Algeria.
1938 BMW R 35: Made in Nazi Germany, Now Preserved in a New York Museum
21 May 2022, 11:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you ask our two cents, the best motorcycle in the entire building was not built by Curtiss, although his early motorbikes were undoubtedly awesome machines.
Virginia Dare II: 1920's America's Idea of an Ultra Luxurious Speed Boat
20 May 2022, 09:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the present day, this nearly all-wood full-sized speedboat spends its days inside the Glenn H Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York.
Curtiss Aerocar: the Century-Old Ultra Luxurious Genesis of the Fifth-Wheel Camper Trailer
20 May 2022, 04:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Folks of all ages behold the Curtiss Aerocar. A quaint little trinket of the early 1920s designed by one of the early 20th century's greatest inventors
This Curtiss C-46 Commando Played Second Fiddle to the Skytrain, Now It's Like a Barn Find
19 May 2022, 23:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Despite carrying more cargo and better performance at high altitudes, Curtiss couldn't compete with the production pace of their rival, the Douglas C-47
Step Aside Elon Musk, This Man Was the Original Eccentric Billionaire Aviator
19 May 2022, 06:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Today, Glenn Curtiss has his own museum dedicated to his illustrious life and career in his birth town of Hammondsport, New York. You can't say that about Elon