Original U.S. WWI 8’ 6” x 5’ 9” US Navy Flying Boat Wooden Propeller Trench Art - Curtiss Model H Hotchkiss MG cut for this purpose

cut for this purpose

with turnback cuffs

and were definitely utilitarian

This example is particularly nice in that it is fully complete

Original U.S. WWI 8’ 6” x 5’ 9” US Navy Flying Boat Wooden Propeller Trench Art - Curtiss Model H Hotchkiss MG cut for this purposeOriginal Item: One Of A Kind. The Curtiss Model H was a family of classes of early long range flying boats, the first two of which were developed directly on commission in the United States in response to the 10,000 prize challenge issued in 1913 by the London newspaper, the Daily Mail, for the first non stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. As the first aircraft having transatlantic range and cargo carrying capacity, it became the grandfather