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Sept 18, 1919: Altitude Record set in Curtiss triplane
Roland Rohlfs and the Curtiss 18T-2 take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, at 12:06 p.m., 18 September 1919. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives) Curtiss Engineering Corporation test pilot Roland Rohlfs set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record Read More...
Niagara Region’s contribution to the Apollo program highlighted in Buffalo Tales
Buffalo Tales, which highlights local stories, has published a review of contributions of companies from the Niagara Region to the Apollo Lunar Landing missions. Read the story at BuffaloTales.net. Read More...
April 26, 1939: US Army orders P-40 Warhawks
26 April 1939: The United States Army Air Corps placed an order for 524 Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawks. This was the largest production order for any U.S.-built fighter since World War I. The total cost was $12,872,398. This photo shows Curtiss-Wright chief test pilot H. Loyd Child in the cockpit Read More...
Former Bell “Rosie the Riveter” visits the museum
We were honored to have a visit by Ida May Oakes Forbes who worked at Bell in the 1940s installing rivets in airplanes. She an her family visited the museum where she shared stories and saw many familiar things among our exhibits. We were even able to have her visit the old Bell Aircraft factory Read More...
Alice Bowman speaks on New Horizons
Museum members and guests were treated to a VERY special talk at the museum on March 20. Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager ("MOM") for the New Horizons mission, shared her insights on the recent fly-by mission to capture images and other data of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object, Ultima Read More...
