Comments on: Inwood in Aviation History

By: Dominic Paratore

Dominic Paratore — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:00:11 +0000

I have visited the Glenn H. Curtiss museum at Hammondsport, NY and saw the restoration of the Albany Flyer, very impressive. I also visited Curtiss’s grave site a about a quarter mile away.

By: Dominic Paratore

Dominic Paratore — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:55:04 +0000

Thank you for the story of Glenn H. Curtiss’s historical Albany to NYC flight with the Hudson Flyer. It is the best I have read and with great detail. May 29th, 1910 to May 29th, 2010, it has been 100 years. And we should be proud that an Great American Glenn H. Curtiss was instrumental in helping our country win the two great wars l and ll.

By: Elizabeth Lee

Elizabeth Lee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:19:34 +0000

Hi Cole: I waited to reply because I wanted to check out a picture in Tieck’s book that describes the Glenn Curtiss escapade. The picture is a really good picture of what would be the lower field and hill sloping down to it in (the now) Inwood Park . Across the Spuyten Duyvil creek is the Johnson Foundry puffing away. I wondered why you didn’t use it. The reason is because the plane isn’t in the picture. It was just meant to show where it had landed. Neat picture of it taking off. It musn’t have been easy to get an unplanned pictures in those days. No camera phones, etc.