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Old 06-05-11, 01:35 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk View Post
Yes sir. Replica. She did fly and came sputtering by to her display area. Last year would mark 100 years since the pusher had flown off and landed on a deck of a carrier.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news..._203574-1.html
Absolutely amazing video. I own a couple of books on Glenn Curtiss and his aircraft, and this is my favorite period of aviation history. If I were ever to own and fly a plane it would probably be an ultralite, just because they represent the modern descendents of those planes.


Thanks for that.




Oh crap! Went looking and found this


this


this one's pretty cool
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