SW - Curtiss Model 11 Autoplane

In the first years of aviation, many designers made an effort to build a machine usable not as an airplane only, but also, without wings, as a car. One of them was a machine invented by Glenn Curtiss in 1917. It was a triplane, using the wings from a Curtiss Model L trainer, with a small foreplane mounted on the aircraft's nose. The aluminum body resembled a Model T and had three seats in an enclosed cabin, with the pilot/chauffeur sitting in the front seat and the two passengers side-by side to the rear. The wings and tail could be detached for use as an automobile.
The prototype was presented on the panamerican aircraft exhibition in February of 1917, attracted an attention but was not able to fly very well, though. It only made a few short jumps, then was damaged. When the United States followed the WW1 then, all the project was forgotten.