ALBERT H. REINERS' ALBUM
JOHN A. D. MCCURDY
SHEEPSHEAD BAY AIR MEET, AUGUST 21, 1910
JOHN A. D. MCCURDY
"McCurdy became the chief pilot for Curtiss - the first to take a "flying boat" into the air and the first (in August 1910 at Sheepshead
Bay, NY) to transmit a wireless message from a plane."
From "Contact: The Story of the Early Birds",
By Henry Serrano Villard
JOHN A. D. MCCURDY
"August 1910 - McCurdy sends and receives the first wireless messages from an aeroplane in flight at Sheepshead Bay, New York."
"On August 27, 1910, a Canadian, J. A. D. McCurdy, sent the first air-to-ground message from a low-flying biplane to a station nearby on
Long Island, New York."