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  When Glenn Hammond Curtiss died in 1930 at the age of 52, his old friend, C. G. Gray, second editor of "Jane's All the World's Aircraft," stated as part of his eulogy: "Nobody has done more for the progress of flying than G. H. Curtis  and few have done as much. He was a good man and a kindly man,   and the world is very much poorer for his loss."  And Gray included the following:   " ...he had...withal," Gray said, "that simplicity that only great men have. " Our Forgotten American Eagle  Click Glenn Curtiss link below for the available DVD about Curtiss. Given his history, it's strange that Glenn Curtiss has been nearly forgotten. How could our young people not know.of this "great," gutsy American giant? In fact, in the first half of the twentieth century, Curtiss was revered as one of our most important aviation pioneers. Some say he was second only to the Wright brothers. It might be legitimately argued tha...

                                                           Unmasking Root In 1942, the Smithsonian Institution endorsed the Wrights as first to fly--and the first even capable of flying. Thirty four years later, Freedom of Information Laws revealed that a secret contract in 1948 had become part of the deal. In it, the Wright family dictated the wording of pertinent museum labels and forbade the Smithsonian from ever investigating the issue, however compelling the evidence might be to the contrary.. The bombshells kept coming. In 1978, highly respected Caltech (California Institute of Technology) in Pasadena analyzed the Wrights’ 1903 airplane, casting scientific doubts on many of the brothers’ claim...