Curtiss Museum

On Monday we went to the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport. It is dedicated to Glenn Curtiss who started out building bicycles, then motorcycles and finally planes. Many of these were on display. He is the Father of Naval Aviation and built the first plane to fly across the Atlantic. Part of the museum is a restoration and building area. At this time they are building a replica of the America, a seaplane originally built in 1914. Volunteers have been working on this plane for four years. On September 15 using two original engines they are going to fly it from Keuka Lake. We were able to walk through the shop and talk to the workers. They stopped their work to answer questions and were very proud of what they had accomplished thus far.