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. 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 ...

Biplane is a replica of the first to soar over Durango In September 1913, curious Durangoans gathered to witness aviation history on the mesa that decades later would be home to Fort Lewis College.

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 ...

On this day in aviation history, 115 years ago (January 18, 1911), the first shipboard aircraft landing was accomplished. At 10:45 a.m., Pilot Eugene Burton Ely departed from U.S. Army Selfridge Field ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain. In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln ...

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 ...