we look at the curtiss pusher airplane. curtiss invented the ailerons, a big difference. i was sure you how it works. the difference is significant, and is the first to land and ake off of a ship. it is rather open, the pilot has a simple seat in front of it. there was a wheel well in front of him. it is to elevators. the first is the canard, up in front, and the other is well behind and it picks up like a normal elevator. the problem with the canard is they are very difficult to fly. the real point that counts is the fact that has the curtiss aileron on it. they were the same principle in between. curtiss did not know whole lot. he was learning as he went along. one of the things he did was putting the ailerons between the wings. he did do it, and it worked out. it was exhausting to fly. a lot of these were. they did not understand control harmonization. in other words, you are flying this airplane, you are doing it constantly in pitch with your hands around. you can see how the structure was. they did have fuselages, things going on from here. and this is the way many a

let's go take a look at another curtiss, compare that to the curtiss pusher we looked at before.e will look at the famous jenny, which became a standard trainer all the way through. they would put two people in the cockpit with dual controls. this is a true jenny. it is one of the few airplanes we have in the world war i collection which is a restoration rather than a replica or reproduction. the painting on this, we stay local all the way through. this is the first airplane that landed in the big field on the north side of the james in what became an air force base. this is the first army air force plane to land there. the jenny is on a better biplane structure. the cockpit is now enclosed, the fuselage is now enclosed. it cuts down on some of the drag. there is still a lot of wires on these early airplanes. it is one of the things they had to do to keep the structure rigid. an old joke was you took a pigeon with you and insert it in the wing. you would store it somewhere inside the wing and let the pigeon go. if it escaped, you are missing a wire. the same principle put more mo