#navalaviation — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/iran/92258/ Second MQ-4C Triton Hit Over Persian Gulf: U.S. Navy’s $240 Million ISR Crisis Deepens as Iran Ceasefire Nears Collapse #AmericanDroneCrash #ElectronicWarfare #GulfSecurity #IntelligenceSurveillanceReconnaissance #Iran #IranAirDefense #ISR #MaritimeSurveillance #MQ4CCrash #MQ4CTriton #NavalAviation #PakistanBrokeredCeasefire #Pentagon #PersianGulf #ReconnaissanceDrone #StraitOfHormuz #TritonDroneDamaged #USNavy #USMilitary #USIranCeasefire

Curtiss Model D Pusher, 1912 (replica). Glenn Curtiss was engaged, sometimes in a legal sense, in a fight with the Wright Brothers for dominance in the world of early aviation - Curtiss machines had ailerons, rather than the Wright-designed wing warping, for roll control. Although the Model D suffered, as did most of the early pusher designs, from higher drag due to the wide-spaced rear fuselage frame members, it was still a useful machine, performing both the first take-off from a vessel (Nov. 1910) and the first landing (Jan. 1911). This replica is of a 'headless pusher', so called by Curtiss because the earlier forward mounted canard control surfaces were omitted in this model #earlyaviation #biplane #GlennCurtiss #Curtiss #aeroplane #pusher #aircraft #navalaviation #USA #WrightBrothers #avgeek #aviationlovers #CurtissModelD #museum #replica