Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Glenn Curtiss

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American aviator Glenn Curtiss.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908, Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association, a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, to build flying machines.

American - Aviator | May 21, 1878 - July 23, 1930

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It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

Glenn Curtiss

It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.

Glenn Curtiss

With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

Glenn Curtiss