Do It On The Water!
NOBODY said it would be easy. Glenn Curtiss found R.O.W. anything but easy when his twin-float-equipped June Bug made like a motorboat back in 1908. It still was a problem two years later. There was neither wind nor chop the day that Naval Aviator. Theodore G. Ellyson, tried to get his seaplane off the water at Hammondsport, Indiana. He found it impossible to break the surface tension and was forced to taxi his Curtiss A-1 Triad-the Navy's first airplane-some 22 miles before conditions had changed enough so that he could become airborne.
