It was originally fitted with a foreplane for pitch control, but this was dispensed with when it was accidentally discovered to be unnecessary. Ely off the deck of the USS Birmingham on November 14, 1910, near Hampton Roads, Virginia) and made the first landing aboard a ship (the USS Pennsylvania) on January 18, 1911, near San Francisco, California. It was also the aircraft type which made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship (flown by Eugene B. ![]() ![]() It was among the very first aircraft in the world to be built in any quantity, all of which were produced by Curtiss during an era of trial-and-error development and equally important parallel technical development in internal combustion engine technologies. ![]() ![]() The 1911 Curtiss Model D “Curtiss Pusher” was an early United States pusher aircraft with the engine and propeller behind the pilot’s seat.
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