Photo # 7 -- "Silver Dart" John A. D. "Doug" McCurdy, pilot.  The first water-cooled motor installed in an aeroplane.  McCurdy made a 14-mile flight at Baddeck, Nova Scotia on March 2, 1909.

Photos courtesy June Sturgis, daughter-in-law of early pilot Parker Brooks Sturgis

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