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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Nov. 19, 1916, Ruth Law climbed into her already-obsolete Curtiss pusher biplane and took off from Chicago. Six hours (and 590 ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Pusher biplane with one 50-horsepower Maximotor B-4 four-cylinder engine. Very similar in layout to the Curtiss Model D "Headless Pusher" of the same time period. Fabric ...

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 ...

On Nov. 19, 1916, Ruth Law climbed into her already-obsolete Curtiss pusher biplane and took off from Chicago. Six hours (and 590 miles) later she touched down at the fairgrounds in Hornell, ...