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Captain Arthur S. Cowan (US Army Signal Corps), commandant of the Signal Corps flying school at San Diego, was at the center of "The Goodier Court-martial," one of the most significant events in early American military aviation. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Section,_U.S._Signal_Corps...

Members of the First Yale Unit, Port Washington, L.I. See notes under

Rear Admiral Erl Clinton Barker Gould (1895-1968) www.millionairesunit.org/index.php?option=com_content&...


Frederick Trubee Davison (February 7, 1896 - November 14, 1974) was an American World War I aviator, Assistant US Secretary of War, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of the American Museum of Natural History. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trubee_Davison

Artemus Lamb Gates (November 3, 1895 – June 14, 1976) was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II.
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Curtiss Model M Flying Boat, a monoplane flying boat ordered by aviator Raymond V. Morris (the "M" in "Model M" is for Morris), the manager of the Curtiss Aviation School at North Island, San Diego. The Model M was powered by a 90-H.P. Curtiss OX-5 V-8 engine. The New York Times published a short item regarding the aircraft's first flight in January 1914. ICE INCRUSTS FLYING BOAT.; New Craft Designed by Curtiss Makes 100-Mile Speed. New York Times January 13, 1914 HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y., Jan. 12. - Traveling at the rate of 100 miles an hour with the temperature close to zero, Raymond V. Morris of New Haven, Conn., made four flights here to-day in the smallest flying boat ever built in America. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60611F73F5912738...

That is a beautiful fuselage!