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The ''June Bug'' (or ''Aerodrome #3'') was an early US aircraft designed and flown by Glenn H. Curtiss and built by the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A) in 1908. The ''June Bug'' is famous for winning the first aeronautical prize, the Scientific American Cup, ever awarded in the United States. ==Design and development== A solid silver sculpted trophy, and $25,000 in cash, would be awarded to whoever made the first public flight of over 1 kilometer (3,280 ft). Glenn Curtiss had a hobby of collecting trophies, and he and the Aerial Experiment Association built the ''June Bug'' with hopes of winning the Scientific American Cup. ''Aerodrome #3'' included the previously used aileron steering system, but a shoulder yoke made it possible for the pilot to steer by leaning from side to side. The varnish that sealed the wing fabric cracked in the heat, and so a mixture of turpentine, paraffin, and gasoline was used. The ''June Bug'' had yellow wings because yellow ochre was added to the wing mixture in order to make the aircraft show up better in photographs. It was named by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell after the common ''Phyllophaga'', a beetle known colloquially in North America as the "June bug," because June bugs were observed to fly similarly to aircraft: they have large stiff outer wings for gliding, and more delicate smaller propeller-like wings that do the actual propulsion. The ''June Bug'' was tested in Hammondsport, New York at Stony Brook Farm. Curtiss flew it successfully on three out of four tries on June 21, 1908, with distances of , , and at . On June 25, performances of and were so encouraging that the Association contacted the Aero Club of America about trying for the Scientific American Cup. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AEA June Bug」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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