The aircraft, owned by Terry Brandt of Hood River ... A few days before the flight, Terry Kapan of Hillsboro Helicopters lifted the Curtiss Pusher to the top of the hotel and settled it on ...

Eugene Burton Ely flew a Curtiss Pusher biplane off the deck of the ... Dunning successfully landed an aircraft on a moving warship, the HMS Furious, for the first time on August 2, 1917.

Unlike these more conventional aircraft, however, the XP-55 design mounted it behind the pilot and drove an aft-mounted pusher propeller. Curtiss reasoned that the XP-55 would provide many ...

In 1911, Curtiss developed the Model D Headless Pusher biplane ... The Warhawk engaged Japanese aircraft after the Pearl Harbor attack. They were used in the Philippines in December 1941 and ...

and lots of Curtiss aircraft imagery. A pusher propeller, on loan from the museum, is on one wall, while from the ceiling hang models of Curtiss airplanes. Paul Geisz, the ex-cop, is the tavern ...

Vintage aircraft and replicas from such legendary ... Snoopy flew his Sopwith Camel doghouse against the Red Baron's Fokker. The Curtiss Pusher, from the Collings Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts ...

RELATED: Largest water bomber coming to EAA AirVenture A newly restored 1909 Curtiss Pusher aircraft from the Collings Foundation of Stow, Mass., also will be on display, along with a "living ...

Curtiss custom built floats and adapted them onto a Model D pusher plane so it could take off and land on water, and six months later Curtiss sold the U.S. Navy their first aircraft.