 FACT: When Orvil and Patricia stop for a bite to eat in the cafe she  asks about the type of aeroplane he flies. He says that its a  Curtiss with an Anzani engine. As we see in the photograph he shows  her, as well as throughout the movie, his aeroplane is a Bristol  Boxkite which itself was a British derivative of the French Farman  biplane of 1909.