Click to open image viewer. Pusher biplane with one 50-horsepower Curtiss V-8 engine. Fabric covered surfaces light yellow. Struts and landing gear orange. In 1909, the G.H. Curtiss Manufacturing ...

has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a highly detailed series of walk-around images ...

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, ...

Click to open image viewer. Not long before America declared war on the Japanese in 1941, the U. S. Army Air Corps sponsored three radical and unorthodox fighter aircraft designs. Pusher power plants ...

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 ...

DALTON — The oldest operating plane in existence will cap Old Home Week in Dalton with an appearance at Pine Grove Park Sunday, Aug. 17, Old Timers' Day. Brought here by the National Air Shows of Ohio ...

Retired Naval Commander Bob Coolbaugh embarked on the adventure of a lifetime nearly four years ago when he decided to re-create the aircraft flown by Curtiss demonstration pilot Eugene Ely, who ...