@ Washington, D.C.
August 2018
Hanging in the Pioneers of Flight gallery at the National Air and Space Museum is this sleek Curtiss R3C seaplane. In 1912 a wealthy French aviation enthusiast, Jacques Schneider, established a trophy to be awarded annually to the winner of a race to be flown over water in seaplanes. Then there was the Pulitzer Trophy Race, sponsored by American newspaperman Ralph Pulitzer, to promote high speed in landplanes. In 1925 the U.S. Army and Navy ordered from the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company three aircraft of the same ...
