This Replica 1910 Curtiss Pusher was built in the 1961 and flown in the movie “The Great Race,” about an automobile race from New York to Paris. After filming, the movie company sold it to Minnesota resident Chuck Doyle, who flew it for demonstration at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and said he “barely survived the ordeal.” Afterward, it hung for many years in Concourse G, until it was donated to the Dakota Territory Air Museum during a Delta Airlines concourse redesign. But the popular and expensive Curtiss Pusher airplanes have a significant history that extends much further into the past than that. On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Ely made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship and completed the first landing on the deck of a ship a few months later, planting the seed for Naval Aviation. Curtiss Pushers were also sold to the U.S. Army Signal Corps and U.S. Navy as airborne observation platforms.