Word: barbot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mummert's tiny monoplane proved as unlucky as Barbot's. On a trial flight near Roosevelt Field, L. I., a squall flung the plane against a telegraph pole, smashing the landing gear and wings and badly injuring the pilot, Captain Brooke L. Pearson...
Challenging Barbot's supremacy in the "flivver" class for airplanes, Harvey C. Mummert, an engineer of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. a Garden City, L. I., has built an even smaller machine which has proved entirely successful. The Mummert monoplane is equipped with an ordinary two cylinder motorcycle engine, weighs only 500 pounds with fuel and pilot and has a wing spread of only 20 feet. With its gas tank filled with 19 gallons of fuel, it can cruise for 1,200 miles. The maximum speed is 80 miles per hour. Captain Brooke L. Pierson, an Air Mai pilot...
...Georges Barbot, who arrived at Roosevelt Field, L. L, from France two weeks ago, with the intention of flying to Chicago in his " air flivver," carried out with disastrous results two trial flights...
...second was an attempt to fly to Washington. The little machine, only 400 pounds in weight, ran into a storm, got out of control, and landed in a tree top near Paulsboro, N. J. Georges Barbot was slightly injured, the machine was wrecked. This was not all. Curio hunters stripped the aeroplane of engine, instruments and wings. With this inexcusable act of vandalism went Barbot's chances of repairing his flivver. Undaunted, however, he plans to build another and renew his attempts...
...cylinder engine weighs only 20 pounds and is scarcely bigger than a phonograph motor. It develops 12 horsepower and the plane can fly 60 miles to the gallon. Yet so skilled is the design that Barbot flew to 6,000 feet in 30 minutes, and can attain a speed of 70 miles an hour...