American aviator Glenn Curtiss making the first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908

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American aviator Glenn Curtiss making the first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908

American aviator Glenn Curtiss making his first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908. On 4 July 1908 at Hammondsport, New York, Curtiss (1878-1930) won a $25, 000 prize for being the first aviator to make a public flight of more than a kilometre. The Wright Brothers had made several flights in 1903-1905, but without the presence of official witnesses

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