Talk:Glenn Curtiss

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Sorry, I didnt mean to revert your photo move, I was still writing the biography while you did the move and I would have lost all the birth and marriage info, if I didnt paste what I had just completed back in. That happens alot when I am writing. If I dont hit save, I risk losing it all, and once I hit save its open season for the editors. Thanks for being polite. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 08:11, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I tried to space out the images a bit better, so the Time cover is at the top (the best image), the 1909 picture beside the event it illustrates, and then the obit near the death mention. It looks good to me now, but I never know how this stuff is going to show up on somebody else's screen, so feel free to move things around some more. Everyking 08:21, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 First 2 Format 3 Congressional Medal of Honor? 4 Photo for flying machine 5 Medal of Honor

[edit] First

Didn't Curtiss claim to have made a first control flight and went to court over that claim with Wright brothers?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:05, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Format

In my opinion, this page has way to many subject headings with single sentences under them. It would be much better to have proper paragraphs. Guardian 05:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional Medal of Honor?

I have hidden the recent addition of the claim that Curtis was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1930. Curtis does not appear on this list of recipients of the Medal of Honor during the period of 1920-1940. The source cited in the article does not appear to be a reliable source in the meaning of Wikipedia:Reliable sources, and certainly is not as authoritative on this subject as a U.S. military site. It is possible that Congress recognized Curtis with an award in 1930, but it is highly unlikely that award would have been the Medal of Honor. Unfortunately, I have failed to find mention of any award to Glenn Curtis from Congress or in 1930 in a quick Google search. -- Donald Albury 11:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo for flying machine

Here is a PD photo of what I believe is one of his flying machines [1] -Ravedave (talk) 22:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Is there any indication this machine was made by Curtiss other than having his middle name on it? From the photo this looks like an attempt to build something analogous to a helicopter (no wings, horizontally arranged multi-bladed 'fans'). Did Curtis ever work on such a machine? -- Donald Albury 12:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Medal of Honor

I doubt that Curtiss was awarded the Medal of Honor. I believe that the medal, which is technically called simply the Medal of Honor, and only incorrectly the "Congressional" Medal of Honor, is awarded only for military action. I do not believe that Curtiss was engaged in any combat action which would have merited the medal. This factoid is still in the article, and should be removed until and unless it is documented reliably. Incidentally, since the medal is awarded by the military "in the name of Congress," this phrase has led to the inaccurate appellation of "Congressional Medal of Honor." Congress does not award it, the military does.Cd195 (talk) 04:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)