^"Bertrand Blanchard Acosta". Early Aviators. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-10-13. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2007-09-25. Taught self to fly, August 1910; built experimental planes and continued personal research until 1912; joined Glenn H. Curtiss as apprentice assisting in developing land and hydroplanes; instructed in flying; 1915. became instructor of R.F.C. and R.N.A.S. at Toronto, Canada .