alt= It Was Just Twenty Years Ago That the Army Bought Its First Plane. the Wright Machine Shown Above, at Ft. Myer, Va., in 1908; in the First Demonstration Lieut. Selfridge, the Army's First Flyer, for Whom Selfridge Field, Mich., Is Named, Was Killed and Orville Wright Badly Injured; at Left Is Capt. Holden Richardson, U.S.N., in a Sixteen-Year-Old Curtiss Seaplane, Recently Resurrected from the Navy Store House. Assembled and Flown; the Old Machine Is a Pusher Type with the Propellers behind the Wings The First Curtiss School of Aviation at North Island, San Diego, Calif.; Glenn Curtiss Himself Is the Man with Cap and Mustache, Second from the Left
