Also in August, the city of Reims, France, held the world’s first international aviation meet. Curtiss attended the event, along with other aviation pioneers such as Louis Bleriot, the first person to fly the English Channel, and Louis Paulhan, pilot of the world’s first successful seaplane. The Wright Brothers, who were selling their own aircraft in Germany at the time, did not attend the meet. In Reims, Curtiss flew another plane, the Reims Racer—or Curtiss No. 2—to a record speed of almost 47 miles per hour, earning himself the Gordon Bennett Cup, a speed trophy sponsored by James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald.
On September 21st, Curtiss arrived in New York City from France to participate in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. This city-wide event sought to honor the centennial of Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat and the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York harbor in his 85-foot ship, the Half Moon.
Also in August, the city of Reims, France, held the world’s first international aviation meet. Curtiss attended the event, along with other aviation pioneers such as Louis Bleriot, the first person to fly the English Channel, and Louis Paulhan, pilot of the world’s first successful seaplane. The Wright Brothers, who were selling their own aircraft in Germany at the time, did not attend the meet. In Reims, Curtiss flew another plane, the Reims Racer—or Curtiss No. 2—to a record speed of almost 47 miles per hour, earning himself the Gordon Bennett Cup, a speed trophy sponsored by James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald.
On September 21st, Curtiss arrived in New York City from France to participate in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. This city-wide event sought to honor the centennial of Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat and the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York harbor in his 85-foot ship, the Half Moon.
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