Joshua Stoff

Joshua Stoff is the longtime curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York. He is the author of 20 books on aviation and space history.

Gustave Maurice Heckscher, a real estate developer and pilot, flew a Curtiss Model F seaplane across a lake in 1913. The U.S. Navy used the two-seat Model F, with a top speed of 65 mph, to train pilots serving in World War I.

The Mystery of the Airplane in the Fishing Shed

Solved—almost 100 years later.

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