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Photo # 5 --"June Bug" Glenn H. Curtiss won the Scientific
American trophy at Hammondsport, N.Y. July 4, 1908, flying five-eights
of a mile.
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| In December 1908 at Lake
Leuka, N.Y. this plane was
transformed into a water aeroplane and tried out with the name "The
Loon."
Photos courtesy June Sturgis, daughter-in-law of early pilot Parker Brooks Sturgis |
