The Curtiss No. 2, usually called the Reims Racer, was a racing aircraft that Glenn Curtiss built in 1909 to enter the Gordon Bennett Cup air race at Reims, France. It was a modified Golden Flyer, an open-framework biplane with two-bay unstaggered wings of equal span, a canard elevator unit, a tricycle landing gear, and large ailerons in the interplane gap, now powered by a lightened 63 hp Curtiss V8. The Aero Club of America sponsored him after the Wright brothers turned the offer down. Curtiss flew the two 10 km circuits in 15 minutes 50.4 seconds, beating Louis Bleriot by 5.8 seconds to win the FF 25,000 prize, then won events at Brescia in Italy.
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built in the United States by Glenn Curtiss in 1909
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built in the United States by Glenn Curtiss in 1909
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built in the United States by Glenn Curtiss in 1909
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was a racing aircraft
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a 63 hp Curtiss OX V8
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a 63 hp Curtiss OX V8
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The No. 2 was a modified Golden Flyer
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The No. 2 was a modified Golden Flyer
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