[Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 3 "June Bug" in flight]

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[Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 3 "June Bug" in flight]

Description

Photograph of the Aerial Experiment Association's Aerodrome No. 3 "June Bug" aircraft, piloted by Glenn H. Curtiss, in flight over a race track near Hammondsport, New York, July 4, 1908.

Inscription: "Drome No. 3, Curtiss' June Bug, carrying Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss as Aviator, July 4, 1908 at Hammondsport N.Y., when he won the Scientific American Trophy by flying one kilometer."

Caption from bulletin: "20. Drome No. 3, Curtiss' June Bug, carrying Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss as Aviator, at the race-track near Hammondsport, N.Y. This was the second flight of July 4, 1908 for which the Scientific American Trophy was awarded by the Aero Club of America."

Photograph from a bulletin titled "Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association," a souvenir volume consisting of eight (8) pages of text and thirty-one (31) photographs illustrating the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, issued April 12, 1909.

Date

1908-07-04

Bibliographic Citation

The Alexander Graham Bell and the Aerial Experiment Association Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2018-10-01-B_image_047_01