The 1911 Curtiss Model D (or frequently " Curtiss Pusher ") is an early United States pusher aircraft with the engine and propeller behind the pilot's seat. It was among the first aircraft in the world to be built in any quantity, during an era of trial-and-error development and equally important parallel technical development in internal combustion engine technologies.
15-1555: [REDACTED] Look up havens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Havens may refer to: People [ edit ] Beckwith Havens (1890–1969), American aviator Bob Havens (born 1930), American big band and jazz musician Brad Havens (born 1959), American baseball player Charlie Havens (1903–1996), American football player Frank C. Havens 1848–1918, American lawyer Frank Havens (canoeist) (1924–2018), American sprint canoeist George Remington Havens (1890–1977), American professor Harrison E. Havens (1837–1916), American lawyer and politician J. Havens Richards (1851–1923), American Jesuit educator James D. Havens (1900–1960), American printmaker and painter James S. Havens (1859–1927), American politician Jeb Havens , American video game developer John Havens (born 1956/1957), American businessman John S. Havens (1826–1903), American politician and businessman Jonathan Nicoll Havens (1757–1799), American politician Kayri Havens , American botanist Leston Havens (1924–2011), American psychiatrist, psychotherapist and medical educator Nol Havens , lead singer of VOF de Kunst Palmer E. Havens (1818–1886), American politician Ralph Havens (born 1943), American luger Reese Havens (born 1986), American baseball player Richie Havens (1941–2013), American singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard P. Havens, 1983 ,
30-602: A canard configuration, with elevators mounted on struts at the front of the aircraft in addition to a horizontal stabilizer at the rear. Later, the elevators were incorporated into the tail unit, and the canard surface arrangement dispensed with, resulting in what became called the Curtiss "Headless" Pushers. In addition to amateur aviators, a Model D was purchased in April 1911 by the Aeronautical Division of
45-709: A music album Thomas Havens (born 1939), American Japanologist William Havens (1919–2013), American canoeist William W. Havens Jr. (1920–2004), an American physicist Places [ edit ] Havens, Nebraska , U.S. Havens, Ohio , U.S. Havens Mansion and Carriage House , San Francisco, California, U.S. Havens Wildlife Management Area , Roanoke County, Virginia, U.S. The Havens , in Pembrokeshire, Wales Other uses [ edit ] Havens (department store) , in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England Havens (typeface) , from
60-457: A test pilot with the U.S. Navy. In WW2 he was in command of a naval installation at San Julien, Cuba. He worked as a distributor for Fairchild Aviation Corporation . In 1960 Havens published a book Reminiscences of Beckwith Havens . He died in May 1969 at age 78. Curtiss Pusher It was also the aircraft type which made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship (flown by Eugene B. Ely off
75-491: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Beckwith Havens Beckwith Havens (1890-1969) was an early American aviator. He flew primarily on the Curtiss Pusher aircraft. In later life he gave accounts of what it was like to be an aviator in the pioneer days . He related how pilots were sometimes forced to fly in dangerous weather and conditions often from
90-562: The Headless Pusher. Like all Curtiss designs, the aircraft used ailerons , which first existed on a Curtiss-designed airframe as quadruple "wing-tip" ailerons on the 1908 June Bug to control rolling in flight, thus avoiding use of the Wright brothers' patented wing warping technology. The Model D was a biplane fitted with a wheeled tricycle undercarriage . The construction was primarily of spruce , with ash used in parts of
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120-530: The U.S. Army Signal Corps as a trainer (S.C. No. 2), and by the Navy as an airborne observation platform. A number of them were exported to foreign militaries, as well, including the Russian Navy . On November 14, 1910, Eugene Ely took off from USS Birmingham in a Model D. This was the first time an aircraft had taken off from a ship. On January 18, 1911, Ely landed a Model D aboard USS Pennsylvania . This
135-409: The behest of an angry crowd he was forced to fly and was almost killed when in windy conditions he crashed into power lines which fortunately had the power turned off. Primitive flying fields and unprepared grass terrains were often a hazard to early pilots. In 1914 Havens announced plans for a transatlantic and world circling flight and was having special plane built. During World War 1 Havens worked as
150-406: The deck of USS Birmingham on November 14, 1910, near Hampton Roads, Virginia) and made the first landing aboard a ship ( USS Pennsylvania ) on January 18, 1911, near San Francisco, California. It was originally fitted with a foreplane for pitch control, but this was dispensed with when it was accidentally discovered to be unnecessary. The new version without the foreplane was known as
165-511: The end, this proved to be a superior solution. Both the interplane and trailing-edge ailerons on these early aircraft did not use a hand or foot-operated mechanism to operate them, but very much like the earlier Santos-Dumont 14-bis had adopted in November 1906, required the pilot to "lean-into" the turn to operate the ailerons — on the Curtiss pushers, a transverse-rocking, metal framework "shoulder cradle", hinged longitudinally on either side of
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#1732772692577180-742: The engine bearers and undercarriage beams, with doped linen stretched over it. The outrigger beams were made of bamboo. Prevented by patents from using the Wright Brothers ' wing warping technique to provide lateral control, and with neither the Wrights nor himself likely to have known about its prior patenting in 1868 England , Curtiss did not use the June Bug's "wing-tip" aileron configuration, but instead used between-the-wing-panels "inter-plane" ailerons , instead, as directly derived from his earlier Curtiss No. 1 and Curtiss No. 2 pushers. In
195-441: The pilot's seat - initially as straight metal tubes resting against the pilot's upper arms; and later achieved with "armrests" in a similar location; achieved the connection between the pilot and aileron control cabling. Almost all Model Ds were constructed with a pusher configuration , with the propeller behind the pilot. Because of this configuration, they were often referred to as the "Curtiss Pusher". Early examples were built in
210-506: The threat of the spectators who came to witness early aviation. Havens was born to Abraham Britton Havens and Leila Havens ( nee Beckwith) in 1890. In 1910 he joined Glenn Curtiss 's burgeoning aviation company first as a salesman then trained as an exhibition pilot. Havens stated that pilots were dying so fast that he'd be forced to fill exhibition dates. At one point before the season was over he'd inherit three different airplanes and three sets of mechanics. In Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin at
225-595: Was the first aircraft to land on a ship. Upon his election in November 1915, Congressman Orrin Dubbs Bleakley became the first government official to fly from his home state to Washington, D.C. The trip was made in a 75 hp (56 kW) Curtiss biplane from Philadelphia, piloted by Sergeant William C. Ocker, on leave from the United States Aviation Corps at the time. The trip took 3 hours, 15 minutes, including an unscheduled stop in
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