Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, landing on the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. This is credited as the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.
Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, taking off from the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. A large crowd of sailors watches from the ship.
Photographic postcard of William S. Luckey seated at the controls of a Curtiss Model E Hydro aircraft, Lake Keuka, New York, circa 1912. Inscription: "Starting on a flight in a Hydro Aeroplane on Lake Keuka."Inscription on verso: "With love from…
Photographic postcard of a Curtiss aircraft, piloted by William S. Luckey, in flight over a crowd, Winchester Virginia, September 12, 1912. Inscription: "W. S. Luckey at Winchester, Va Sept 12/12."
Photographic postcard of people looking at a wrecked aircraft, Winchester, Virginia, September 12, 1912.
Inscription: "Wreck of aeroplane at Winchester, Va. Sept 12/12. Engine quit [illegible] landed in railroad cut. / W. S. Luckey."
Photograph of William S. Luckey in a Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft, circa 1913. The typed caption on the verso notes that Luckey won an air race around Manhattan that was held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight at…
Photograph of a man in a swimsuit with a Curtiss seaplane, Isle of Palms, South Carolina, circa 1913.Inscription on verso: "Isle of Palms / Charleston, S.C."