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One photograph of a flying Curtiss Model D Headless biplane piloted by Carl J. Sjolander.
Carl Sjolander was born 12 May 1883 near Gothenburg, Sweden and emigrated to the United States in 1902. Settling in California, he learned to fly at the Curtiss Aviation School in the San Diego area and was awarded ACA Flying Certificate No. 138 on 26 June 1912. Sjolander died in Oakland on 24 March 1928. The 1911 Curtiss Model D was an early biplane designed in the United States. Without a foreplane, the version depicted in the photograph is known as a headless pusher.
NASM.2024.0037
1912
Elizabeth Scanlon, Gift, 2024, NASM.2024.0037. Item originally loaned for copying by Leo Scanlon in 2003.
.01 Cubic feet (1 photograph)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one photograph depicting a one-half right front view from below of a Curtiss Model D Headless biplane (race no. 53) in flight and piloted by Carl J. Sjolander. It was probably taken at the Cicero Aviation Meet in Chicago, Illinois, 1912.
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Carl J. Sjolander Photograph, NASM.2024.0037, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
Curtiss, General, Aircraft
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