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grantr

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

I guess this is where I get my flying from.



My great grandfather is the person in front of the wing with the suit and hat on.  He is the 4th person from the left.



This picture information from the website says this was taken in 1904. That’s really strange and cool since the Wright brothers flew 1st in 1903. This plane has the horizontal stabilizer in the rear like modern planes vs. the front like the Wright flyer of 1903 and 1904 and 1905.



 I wish I could find out more abut this picture and the airplane.



Any historians know anything about the picture?



 

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/vang/meta_dlg_vang_cly058-82.html?Welcome

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

Grant, That's the Curtiss Golden Flyer built by the Curtiss-Hemming Co., or a copy of it. The year is wrong as Curtiss didn't fly until 1908 in the "June Bug" built by Alexander Graham Bell's  Aerial Experiment Association. Here's a better picture of the aircraft at the 1909 air race at Reims, France:



http://www.earlyaviators.com/ecurti01.htm 



Rick Girard



On Jan 24, 2008 10:57 AM, grantr <grant_richardson25(at)yahoo.com (grant_richardson25(at)yahoo.com)> wrote:

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I guess this is where I get my flying from.



My great grandfather is the person in front of the wing with the suit and hat on.  He is the 4th person from the left. 



This picture information from the website says this was taken in 1904. That's really strange and cool since the Wright brothers flew 1st in 1903. This plane has the horizontal stabilizer in the rear like modern planes vs. the front like the Wright flyer of 1903 and 1904 and 1905. 



 I wish I could find out more abut this picture and the airplane.



Any historians know anything about the picture?

 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/vang/meta_dlg_vang_cly058-82.html?Welcome





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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:37 am Post subject: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

The Airplane is a Curtiss Pusher...



Read up on Glenn Curtiss and you will learn more about it.



beauford

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grantr

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

Wow thats really cool!! Thanks for the information.



I saw where this plane cost around $4500 to $6000 new back then. I seriously doubt my great grandfather or any of the farmers in Clay county could have afforded that in 1908.



My great grandfather did work at a saw mill at one time in his life losing part of his arm in an accident. Maybe some of them built the plane.



No one know anything about that picture except that my great grandfather is in it.



Gosh I can wait to start flying my Kolb!

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

A quick correction. While the aircraft is a Golden Flyer, it was made by the Herring-Curtiss Co.



Rick Girard



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The Airplane is a Curtiss Pusher...



Read up on Glenn Curtiss and you will learn more about it.



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Dana

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

At 01:22 PM 1/24/2008, beauford T wrote:

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The Airplane is a Curtiss Pusher...



Read up on Glenn Curtiss and you will learn more about it.


	


Also see http://tinyurl.com/37zdoz ; Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome still flies 

theirs (a very similar but later model).  Twenty feet high the length of 

the runway is as far as they ever take it during their airshows, but it's 

an awesome sight.



-Dana

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left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de 

Saint-Exup,ry

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

Thanks for the link.

For a great video of the curtiss:

http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/action_footage.htm



BB



On 24, Jan 2008, at 8:29 PM, Dana Hague wrote:



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 At 01:22 PM 1/24/2008, beauford T wrote:

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> <beauford173(at)verizon.net>

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> The Airplane is a Curtiss Pusher...

>

> Read up on Glenn Curtiss and you will learn more about it.



 Also see http://tinyurl.com/37zdoz ; Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome still  

 flies theirs (a very similar but later model).  Twenty feet high  

 the length of the runway is as far as they ever take it during  

 their airshows, but it's an awesome sight.



 -Dana

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  "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is  

 nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - 

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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:44 am Post subject: Re: 1904 photo of a biplane in Georgia

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