Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines – Glenn Curtiss
Inventor, racer, aviator – intense and relentless competitor. Father of Naval Aviation.  These titles and more accrued to one Glenn Hammond Curtiss, born this date in 1878 in Hammondsport, New York. Not satisfied with the sedate life of the pedistrian, he earned money for his first bicycle while working for Eastman Kodak (where his natural inventiveness and…