Curtiss Flying Boat at Bar Harbor Me. 22.

Curtiss Flying Boat at Bar Harbor Me. "The steel pier of the Reading Room is in the background. It was on this pier that President WH Taft came to Bar Harbor." --Willie Granston, 2011 "In 1911, Glenn Curtiss was awarded the prestigious Collier Trophy for the development of the hydroaeroplane, a land airplane mounted on floats. In 1913, Curtiss developed the first practical and highly successful flying boat, the Model E, with the entire fuselage being a hull rather than mounting the aircraft on floats. The later Model F perfected the flying boat design with the incorporation of a V hull, supplanting the less efficient flat-bottomed hull of the Model E." -- Smithsonian National Air Space Museum "Victor Vernon was trained as a flying-boat aviator at Glenn Curtiss’ Hammondsport, New York, flying school in 1914. After receiving his pilot’s certification, Vernon started his career as an exhibition pilot in his “Betty V” Curtiss Model F Flying-boat in Buffalo, New York, finally ending up in Portland and Bar Harbor, Maine, in the summer of 1914. During his time as an exhibition aviator, Vernon had to disassemble the Betty V every time he traveled to a new location (except for the Bar Harbor flight), in order to ship it there ahead of time. Vernon was invited to make an exhibition flight in Bar Harbor, Maine, for September 4, 1914, by the Bar Harbor Labor Day Celebration Committee Chairman. With his expenses covered by the committee and substantial pay for the one-day job, Vernon made the longest flight over water at that time, flying over the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Bar Harbor, Maine, on September 3, 1914. The next day he gave an exhibition of his Curtiss flying-boat for the town’s Labor Day celebration." -- Taken from Wright State University catalog.