This does it! Glenn Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport is now on my bucket list!

Visited the Museum 46 years ago, the old one. Could not believe the high quality of Glenns early engines. His Motorcycles would look gorgeous to those made today. I wondered how he did it since he had to cast and make everything as no order catalogs like today. The genius of this man stunned me. His trip down the Hudson was almost his last as he hit terrible turbulence equal in every way to Lindbergs Atlantic crossing if you consider the time.

He worked hard and did exhausting work for humanity. His service to humanity is great. We appreciate it, Curtis. May God rest your soul in heaven. Great person Curtis.❤

Jim Poel pilot of this plane should be recognized as man with great courage to help build and test this plane. His death resulted from a crash while testing this airplane. Jim was a very good pilot checked out in multi-engine passenger jets. The cause was never made public, we miss him. Don Kaake

@williamyaughn7617

3 жыл бұрын

It takes leather ballsto fly this old girl.

@nameismetatoo4591

3 жыл бұрын

@Phil M I read a few obituaries/posts and some mentioned an engine failure shortly after takeoff. Not surprising, considering the engines were very prone to failure on most planes of that era (before the radial engine was adopted).

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Жыл бұрын

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That was way cool thank you for sharing. Most impressive!!

well done, im impressed you took her up out of the ground effect. Brave flying

The pioneers of aviation !

Vintage planes will be flying into my tiny town in 8 days. Can't wait!!!! Great video

The first pilots of these planes were awed at the astonishing speed of 50 mph.

We just visited the museum 2weeks ago. Great video!

Thinking of building a Bloop ultralight. Probably the closest I'll come to being able to fly one of these early aircraft. Beautiful restoration.

Wow, well done!

Nicely done, gentleman. Nice to hear the comments about the flying characteristics of the Hudson Flier. Would love to see more on the building of the engine as well as the aircraft itself.

@Marcos5pb

4 ай бұрын

This doesn't look like the Wright Brothers Flyer!

@AverageRetiredGeek

4 ай бұрын

It isn't!! It is The Curtiss Hudson Flier replica.

Bamboo. Who would have ever thought. The carbon fiber of its day.

I like the sound of that engine

Very cool video.

Nice little blue and white Seabee in the hangar.

Nice I always loved this plane, but I love all planes. Good job. See you at the museum

@angelreading5098

5 жыл бұрын

Is there any follow up to the awful accident ? cannot find any information on what happened,mention of Jims hospitalisationl injuries but not of his death,how tragic.

@tinahaynes696

5 жыл бұрын

If I remember right, I heard he only broke his arm, and survived the crash.

My Great Uncle owned one of these. I have the pictures before and after the crash. They also removed the front aileron or whatever it was called.

@pixelpatter01

5 жыл бұрын

@Jesse LinkJust the one, as far as I know. I think two or three guys owned it together. They had a leather coupon that gave them access to an airfield for the 1912 Season ( Hempstead Plains Aviation Field , Near Clinton Road Station, Garden City, L.I.) that my father carried it in his wallet for luck when he was part of an aircrew in WW2.

So cool!!

The Wrights had the patent on wing warping for roll. Curtis got around that one by inventing the aileron.

@RDJunc

6 жыл бұрын

Dorothy Gale Not quite true. The aileron had been around for quite some time. The US Patent office should never have granted the Wright's a patent that covered all forms of wing alterations for roll control. It is true that Curtiss used ailerons to stay clear of the Wright's patent but the USPTO still felt that he infringed. That's why the ailerons are separate from the wing on this plane.

@cwdor

5 жыл бұрын

THATS A LIE...CURTIS GOT SUED FOR TRYING TO SAY THAT HIS LITTLE WING WAS NOT THE SAME THING AS THE WRIGHTS AILERON.......3 TIMES

@cpmiller1965

5 жыл бұрын

True, the Wright’s patented design which they hadn’t even invented. The patent was so vague all aircraft would have paid royalties. That all ended once ww1 started.

@rofallen

Жыл бұрын

all patents were given free to humanity by Santos Dumont, because he was the creator of all this, the brothers didn't create anything, they just wanted to patent and it's funny that 3 years after Santos Dumont flew in front of everyone in Paris, he comes to show something that had already been invented

good idea

Beautiful idle. Almost dragster like.

Awesome

interesting... very similar to the Wright's military flyer. I thought by 1910 Curtiss had moved the canard to the rear, no?

The seat belt in this thing is just a formality right?

All i got to say is Brillant

Esse tbm tem um motor de 12 HP como o primeiro flier?

Esse avião ✈ tinha cinto de segurança?

Flew a darn sight better than the Wrights replica !!!

Does it have a reproduction of the original engine,or is it a rebuild of the original?

@RDJunc

5 жыл бұрын

It had an original OX-5 Curtiss engine. It was completely rebuilt by the museum for this plane.

The propeller is rotating to the left looking from the back as a pusher,however the trailing edge is leading forwards ? what is going on there ?

@RDJunc

5 жыл бұрын

Hehe. No, that's the leading edge. I know it looks odd but pusher props just look like their are backwards. Note the metal guards. They are on the leading edge.

@angelreading5098

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I can see it now you mention it,you have to look at it tractoring from the front of the aircraft with the slipstream being drawn from the front,thank you for the explanation.

Keep your F-35 and give me this plane!

Why do you have to manually wind the propeller to start it?

@RDJunc

4 жыл бұрын

That is an original OX5 engine that was 80 years old but of course rebuilt. Engines back then did not have starters. The first thing that had to be done was to pull the prop over several times to get fuel into the cylinders with the ignition off. Then the ignition was turned on and the prop pulled to start the engine.

@Melissa0774

4 жыл бұрын

@@RDJunc Is that the same thing they did on old cars like Model T's when they turn the crank on the front to start it?

@RDJunc

4 жыл бұрын

@@Melissa0774 Exactly

@markcash2

3 жыл бұрын

To wind up the really big rubber-bands inside the engine.

looks like something from Gilligans island !

Sounds like a Harley Davidson

It looked extremely sensitive in pitch and the pilot mentioned that after the flight was over. Really sorry to hear he was killed flying this plane, I believe I remember hearing of it at the time, its really risky to fly the pioneering designs, they still had a lot to figure out in the way of aerodynamics.

@RDJunc

5 жыл бұрын

Jim had many many hours flying these sorts of planes with the museum and although sensitive in pitch, not unreasonably so. To be accurate, Jim was injured in the crash, not fatally. (It was a very hard landing in a nearby corn field.) He died a year or so later from a heart attack while in Florida.

@G56AG

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarification.

All rights charch structure

Historique

damn faa pisses me off that planes have to have those big ugly letters on the side *"EXPERIMENTAL"*

Nem voa! Haha

I hope His family took out life insurance on his ass.

"It flies as delightful as it looks!" (terrible)

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Curtiss would make the USA aviation to develop way faster, if the Wright brothers were not slowing the aviation down in justice courts. 🤦‍♂️

@zeke2566

Жыл бұрын

The wrights deserve All Credit for any and all aviation from the 1900,s forward period-the invented propellers and a fucking wind tunnel for testing for christ's sake-Wake up!##$%^&*(

@sanpol4399

Жыл бұрын

@@zeke2566 Totally wrong. Besides, they just slowed down the aviation development in USA. You know it, but just do not admit. 🙂