P-40 Ninja! | Featured Letter

For the second issue in a row, I find that I just have to write and say, "Thanks!"

The article on Glenn Curtiss (A Man of Wings & Wheels, Motorcyclist June 2014) is a masterful look at a true pioneer and innovator on land and in the air. I have always found small aircraft and motorcycles inexorably linked in the psyche of those that must not only find speed and maneuvering a thrill, but being in control the ultimate high.

The Curtiss company produced some of the best if not most memorable aircraft of their era, and I did not fully appreciate the extent to which Curtiss was involved with motorcycles. I am glad I chose to use the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk in the Flying Tigers motif as my most extensive tribute bike to date. (see pics)

Whether we take to the air or to the asphalt, or both, we owe men like Glenn Curtis an immeasurable debt.

Ben Getz

Moses Lake, WA