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On this day in Buffalo history...

Buffalo Toronto Public Media
Published August 29, 2010 at 12:46 PM EDT
Glen Curtiss
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Glen Curtiss

Buffalo, NY – On August 29, 1909, Glenn Curtiss, 31, a Western New York aviator, won the first James Gordon Bennett international airplane race, in the "Rheims Flyer" in Rheims France, flying at an average speed of 46.5 miles per hour.