Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entries comprised the best aviators in this country as well as two Englishmen. Among the Americans were Walter Brookins and Ralph Johnstone with Wright biplanes, Glenn H. Curties and Charles Foster Willard in Curtiss biplanes, William M. Hilliard with a Burgess biplane, and Cromwell Dixon with a dirigible balloon. The Englishmen were Claude Grahame-White, who used a Farman biplane and a Bleriot monoplane, and A. V. Roe with his triplanes...
...Glenn H. Curtiss, perhaps the best known aviator in the country, had considerable trouble with a new engine which he had installed in one of his two biplanes, and although he had intended to compete for the Globe prize, he was unable to get the new engine into running order, and as his old one was not powerful enough to give him sufficient speed, he gave up the attempt. However, even with its old engine, his machine proved to be the second fastest on the field, and he carried off the second prize for speed, amounting...
Willard, in a Curtiss biplane, won second place in the getaway...
...interesting event, designed to show the possibilities of the aeroplane in time of war, in addition to the bomb-dropping contest, was the flight of Lieutenant Fickel, who shot with a rifle at a target from a Curtiss biplane piloted by Willard...
...Totals, 30 3 5 26 8 3 EXETER. a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Wingate, 3b. 4 0 2 1 2 0 Fox, 1b. 4 0 0 11 1 0 Frye, p., l.f. 4 0 1 1 2 0 Pratt, r.f. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Curtiss, s.s. 4 0 0 2 2 1 Way, c. 3 0 0 3 0 0 Vaughn, c.f. 2 0 0 1 0 0 Hennesey, 2b. 2 0 0 2 2 0 Walsh, l.f. 2 0 0 1 0 1 Litchfield, p. 0 0 0 0 1 1 +Tidgewell...