DHMosquito<p>Curtiss Model D Pusher, 1912 (replica). Glenn Curtiss was engaged, sometimes in a legal sense, in a fight with the Wright Brothers for dominance in the world of early aviation - Curtiss machines had ailerons, rather than the Wright-designed wing warping, for roll control. Although the Model D suffered, as did most of the early pusher designs, from higher drag due to the wide-spaced rear fuselage frame members, it was still a useful machine, performing both the first take-off from a vessel (Nov. 1910) and the first landing (Jan. 1911). This replica is of a 'headless pusher', so called by Curtiss because the earlier forward mounted canard control surfaces were omitted in this model <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/earlyaviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earlyaviation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/biplane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biplane</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GlennCurtiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlennCurtiss</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Curtiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Curtiss</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/aeroplane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aeroplane</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/pusher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pusher</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/aircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aircraft</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/navalaviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>navalaviation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WrightBrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WrightBrothers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/aviationlovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviationlovers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CurtissModelD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurtissModelD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/replica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>replica</span></a></p>