1910 Curtiss Hudson Flier Replica Flight 

It takes leather ballsto fly this old girl.

@Phil M I read a few obituaries/posts and some mentioned an engine failure shortly after takeoff. Not surprising, considering the engines were very prone to failure on most planes of that era (before the radial engine was adopted).

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This doesn't look like the Wright Brothers Flyer!

It isn't!! It is The Curtiss Hudson Flier replica.

Dorothy Gale Not quite true. The aileron had been around for quite some time. The US Patent office should never have granted the Wright's a patent that covered all forms of wing alterations for roll control. It is true that Curtiss used ailerons to stay clear of the Wright's patent but the USPTO still felt that he infringed. That's why the ailerons are separate from the wing on this plane.

THATS A LIE...CURTIS GOT SUED FOR TRYING TO SAY THAT HIS LITTLE WING WAS NOT THE SAME THING AS THE WRIGHTS AILERON.......3 TIMES

True, the Wright’s patented design which they hadn’t even invented. The patent was so vague all aircraft would have paid royalties. That all ended once ww1 started.

all patents were given free to humanity by Santos Dumont, because he was the creator of all this, the brothers didn't create anything, they just wanted to patent and it's funny that 3 years after Santos Dumont flew in front of everyone in Paris, he comes to show something that had already been invented

@Jesse LinkJust the one, as far as I know. I think two or three guys owned it together. They had a leather coupon that gave them access to an airfield for the 1912 Season ( Hempstead Plains Aviation Field , Near Clinton Road Station, Garden City, L.I.) that my father carried it in his wallet for luck when he was part of an aircrew in WW2.

Is there any follow up to the awful accident ? cannot find any information on what happened,mention of Jims hospitalisationl injuries but not of his death,how tragic.

If I remember right, I heard he only broke his arm, and survived the crash.

Hehe. No, that's the leading edge. I know it looks odd but pusher props just look like their are backwards. Note the metal guards. They are on the leading edge.

Yes I can see it now you mention it,you have to look at it tractoring from the front of the aircraft with the slipstream being drawn from the front,thank you for the explanation.

That is an original OX5 engine that was 80 years old but of course rebuilt. Engines back then did not have starters. The first thing that had to be done was to pull the prop over several times to get fuel into the cylinders with the ignition off. Then the ignition was turned on and the prop pulled to start the engine.

@@RDJunc Is that the same thing they did on old cars like Model T's when they turn the crank on the front to start it?

@@Melissa0774 Exactly

To wind up the really big rubber-bands inside the engine.

Jim had many many hours flying these sorts of planes with the museum and although sensitive in pitch, not unreasonably so. To be accurate, Jim was injured in the crash, not fatally. (It was a very hard landing in a nearby corn field.) He died a year or so later from a heart attack while in Florida.

Thanks for the clarification.

It had an original OX-5 Curtiss engine. It was completely rebuilt by the museum for this plane.

The wrights deserve All Credit for any and all aviation from the 1900,s forward period-the invented propellers and a fucking wind tunnel for testing for christ's sake-Wake up!##$%^&*(

@@zeke2566 Totally wrong. Besides, they just slowed down the aviation development in USA. You know it, but just do not admit. 🙂