Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Pusher biplane with one 50-horsepower Curtiss V-8 engine. Fabric covered surfaces light yellow. Struts and landing ...

In Seward, Nebraska, a life-size replica of a 1913 Curtiss Model D Pusher airplane was recently displayed at the Nebraska National Guard Museum. Eight-hundred miles away in Durango, its twin is ...

Biplane is a replica of the first to soar over Durango In September 1913, curious Durangoans gathered to witness aviation history on the mesa that decades later would be home to Fort Lewis College.

Tom Murphy is likely the only Curtiss Pusher pilot in the Pacific Northwest, possibly the country. In 1995, the antique airplane pilot and mechanic flew the plane, also known as the Curtiss Model D, ...

How do you re-create a 1912 airplane when you can’t find a 130-year-old airplane builder to help you? You do what those craftsmen did: You keep trying until something works. That was part of the ...

In celebration of 100 years of Naval Aviation, meet Bob Coolbaugh, who built and pilots the only flying replica of Eugene B. Ely's 1911 Curtiss Model D, the "Curtiss Pusher." Bring a bag lunch and ...

NORFOLK (Nov. 15, 2010) Retired Navy Cmdr. Bob Coolbaugh pilots a replica of a Curtiss Pusher Biplane on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The original aircraft ...

A legacy of America’s first licensed airplane pilot is slowly taking shape inside a Vancouver warehouse. The project is a full-sized replica of a 1912 Curtiss Pusher biplane — an aircraft that made ...

Pilot Bob Coolbaugh, who built the historic aircraft, flew the replica 1911 Ely Curtiss Pusher from the Eastern Shore into Martin State Airport (WBAL Photo by Scott Wykoff) 6 / 9 The Movie "Memphis ...

At 11:01 a.m., on Jan. 18, 1911, Eugene Ely, flying a Curtiss pusher, landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania (ACR 4) at anchor in San Francisco Bay. At 11:58 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Pusher biplane with one 50-horsepower Curtiss V-8 engine. Fabric covered surfaces light yellow. Struts and landing ...