" Her teacher was Anita " Neta " Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4 " Canuck " for training.

Sergeant Charles E. Garlick, who had landed at Alessandro Field in a Curtiss JN-4 " Jenny " in November 1917, was selected to lead the advance contingent of four men to the new base from Rockwell Field.

On 20 March 1918, Alessandro Flying Training Field became March Field, named in honor of Second Lieutenant Peyton C. March, Jr., son of the Army Chief of Staff, who had been killed when his Curtiss JN-4 " Jenny " crashed in Fort Worth, Texas the previous month.

This " high prairie " caught the eye of pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss and Missouri cattleman James H. Bright who saw great potential in 1921.

The new airfield was dedicated on 31 May 1935 and named in honor of Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam, a distinguished aviation pioneer who was killed in an aircraft accident the previous November 5 when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, hit an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas and overturned.

Early development of aircraft and seaplanes was carried out at Hammondsport by Glenn Curtiss who had joined with Alexander Graham Bell and others in the Aerial Experiment Association.

Curtiss was established as a rural railroad station in 1882 and is named after the chief engineer who built the railroad.

Perhaps the most famous person to come out of the Village of Curtiss was Army Colonel Franklin Matthias, who oversaw the construction and early operation of the Hanford Site during World War II.

She met David Curtiss Stephenson, who quickly invited her out.

David Curtiss " Steve " Stephenson ( 21 August 1891 – 28 June 1966 ) was an American politician who was appointed in 1923 as a Grand Dragon ( state leader ) of the Ku Klux Klan in the U. S. state of Indiana, and head of recruiting for seven other states.

Also receiving the Navy Cross from New Glarus was Kevin Patrick Lynch, who was credited with a direct hit of a 1, 000-pound bomb on a Japanese heavy cruiser on October 25, 1944 in the Battle for Leyte Gulf while in the seat of his Curtiss SB2C Helldiver.

In the United States, early development was carried out at Hammondsport, New York by Glenn Curtiss who had beaten Alexander Graham Bell and others in the Aerial Experiment Association.

On May 7, 1925 Hines dedicated the landing field at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington to the memory of Lieutenant Alexander Pearson, Jr. who was killed on September 2, 1924 in Fairfield, Ohio while flying the Curtiss R-8 in preparation for the upcoming Pulitzer Trophy Race.

Philip José Farmer's 1982 science-fiction novel A Barnstormer in Oz tells the story of hotshot aviator Henry " Hank " Stover — who is not at all surprised one beautiful spring day in 1923 when he flies his Curtiss Jenny biplane through a strange green cloud and finds himself in a land populated by small people where animals talk and magic works.

The field was originally named Curtiss Field and was renamed in honor of Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin, who died in World War I.

An international cast plays the array of contestants, most of whom live up to national stereotypes, including the by-the-book, monocle-wearing Prussian officer ( Gert Fröbe ) flying an Eardley-Billing biplane, impetuous Count Emilio Ponticelli ( Alberto Sordi ), an amorous Frenchman Pierre Dubois ( Jean-Pierre Cassel ) in a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle, the rugged American cowboy Orvil Newton ( Stuart Whitman ) flying a Bristol Boxkite ( impersonating a Curtiss ), who falls for Patricia, causing a love triangle between them and Mays.

In October, Ely and Curtiss met Captain Washington Chambers, USN, who had been appointed by George von Lengerke Meyer, the Secretary of the Navy, to investigate military uses for aviation within the Navy.

The premier event — the Gordon Bennett Trophy — was won by Glenn Curtiss, who beat second place finisher Louis Blériot by five seconds.

Once the site for the field was selected, a committee decided to name the base after Captain William Millican Randolph, a native of Austin and graduate of Texas A & M, who was killed on 17 February 1928, in the crash of a Curtiss AT-4 Hawk, 27-220, on takeoff from Gorman Field, Texas.

U. S. naval aviation began with pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss who contracted with the Navy to demonstrate that airplanes could take off from and land aboard ships at sea.

One of the most important was Gonzalo Mejia, who in a very colloquial decided what would be the only place where you could build an airport, this place was confirmed by the Curtiss Wright firm based in New York.

James Curtiss ( also Curtis ) ( April 7, 1803 – November 2, 1859 ) was an American politician who twice served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1847 – 1848 and 1850 – 1851 ) for the Democratic Party.

" He also cites More Misinformation, by Tom Burnam: " Burnam concluded that the candy bar was named ... after the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Williamson, candy makers who developed the original formula and sold it to Curtiss.

Pope AFB is named after First Lieutenant Harley Halbert Pope who was killed on 7 January 1919, when the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny he was flying crashed into the Cape Fear River.

The airport was opened by the Curtiss Flying School, part of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, as a pilot training school in 1915.

Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss ( Canada ) aircraft operation in Toronto ( opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes ), Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4 ( Can ) Canuck, the Felixstowe F5L flying boat, and the Avro 504.

Instead, Glenn Curtiss opened a flying school and held a lease to the property until the beginning of World War I. Curtiss invited both the Army and Navy to use the site for aviation training, with the Navy being the first to open a station in 1912.

In 1953 the team traded its Sky Train for a Curtiss R5C Commando.

* 1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

Ultimately Goodyear built 9 envelopes, Goodrich built 5 and Curtiss built the gondolas for all of those 14 ships.

* Curtiss Thrush, an early single-engined airliner, the basis for the twin-engined Curtiss Kingbird

: Auxiliary Field 3 is named Duke Field for 1st Lt Robert L. Duke, killed in the crash of Curtiss A-25A-20-CS Shrike, 42-79823, near Spencer, Tennessee, on 29 December 1943.

An application for incorporation of the village was made to the State of Wisconsin on October 14, 1914: however, actual incorporation was not granted until March 30, 1917 ( Curtiss Centennial Booklet ).

Heelas ' The New Age Movement states that Mind Dynamics and Alexander Everett were influenced by Edgar Cayce, Theosophy, and Silva Mind Control, and Curtiss ' Depression is a Choice also cites Silva Mind Control and self-talk as the basis for Mind Dynamics.

Unfortunately for Martin, the production orders were given to other companies that had bid lower, Curtiss ( 50 ), L. W. F.

In 1924 the Martin Company underbid Curtiss for the production of a Curtiss-designed scout bomber, the SC-1, and ultimately Martin produced 404 of these.

Curtiss C-46s were also used for transport between Retalhuleu and a CIA base ( code-named JMTide, aka Happy Valley ) at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.

Gradually at first, America was able to supply New Zealand with aircraft for use in the Pacific Theatre — initially, in 1942, Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks and additional Harvards and Hudsons.

The Post Office set a controversial rate of 24 cents for the service, much higher than the 3 cents for first-class mail of the time, and decided to issue a new stamp just for this rate, patriotically printed in red and blue, and depicting a Curtiss Jenny, the biplane chosen to shuttle the mail.

The factory complex was originally built in 1916 for the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, and during World War I had been considered the largest airplane factory in the world.

The P-51 Mustang was initially produced for Britain as an alternative to the Curtiss P-40, which North American had declined to produce under licence.

Unfortunately, the contract was instead awarded to the somewhat inferior Curtiss P-40, but the Army Air Corps were very pleased with the aircraft's medium-and high-altitude performance and ordered 13 additional AP-4s for testing.

" A Fighter for All Weather ... Curtiss XP-87 Blackhawk.

On December 16, 1951 a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando bound for Tampa, FL lost a cylinder on takeoff from runway 28 and crashed in Elizabeth killing 56, on January 22, 1952 an American Airlines Convair CV-240-0 arriving from Syracuse, NY crashed in Elizabeth while on approach to runway 6 killing all 23 passengers and crew as well as seven on the ground, and on February 11, 1952 a National DC-6 bound for Miami crashed in Elizabeth after takeoff from runway 24 killing 29 of 63 on board and four persons on the ground.

*" Canuck " is a nickname for the Curtiss JN4 biplane and Avro CF-100 jet fighter.