Glenn H. Curtiss Museum - Hammondsport, NY

One of the IVSM events was the dinner at the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum about a 45 minute drive away in Hammondsport, NY.   This very interesting museum is dedicated to the aviation pioneer. 

The museum wasn't all aviation.  At the entrance, there was an exhibit on the history of the women's bathing suit!  The museum included motorcycles -- Curtiss raced before he got into aviation  -- a Curtiss designed motorhome trailer, doll houses, firearms, etc.  Something for everybody! 

 
We had a nice dinner next to the big Curtis Seaplane.
 
The wild bunch. 
  
The 1908 "June Bug". 
 
From another angle.
 
A June Bug model.
 
1930 Travel Air "Speedwing"
 
This is the flimsiest rudder I've ever seen on an airplane.
 
Bruce getting some valuable simulator time on the Cub.
 
A 3/4 replica of the famed Curtis P-40 Warhawk.
 
This is one of two display cases filled with hand-carved airplane models that some guy made.
 
He even carved a P-3 Orion!
 
A neat model of a Curtiss Jenny next to the real thing.
 
Curtis Model E Flying Boat.  Designed in 1912, it was considered to be the first successful flying boat.
 
The museum had a very good collection of the big Curtiss-Wright radial engines. 
 

A full-scale replica of the 1914 America, a Curtiss H-1 flying boat built for an attempted non-stop transatlantic crossing, named America because there was not enough room for “Rodman Wanamaker Transatlantic Flier.”
  
 
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