Curtiss would later create at least 500 inventions while serving as the owner of his own aircraft manufacturing company.
Curtiss would later create at least 500 inventions while serving as the owner of his own aircraft manufacturing company. He earned the title “Father of Naval Aviation” for designing the first practical seaplane and pioneering aircraft that could take off and land on the decks of aircraft carriers, and his “flying boats” and JN-4 “Jenny” were both mainstays in the U.S. air fleet during World War I. In 1919, meanwhile, a Curtiss NC-4 flying boat became one of the first planes to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean ( Alcock and Brown were the first people to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean). It would be another eight years before Charles Lindbergh made his more famous 1927 flight from New York to Paris.