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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
1911 500cc Curtiss Marvel.
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This is the same Curtiss as the airplane manufacturer. The U.S. Navy's first airplane in 1911 was a Curtiss. Two replicas were built and one was flown in 1961 in commemoration of fifty years of naval aviation, and then flown again in 2011. I suspect the pilot was very brave to venture off the water in such a crude machine.