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Basil L. Rowe of Alben, N. Y., drove his SV-A three-seater at 111.05 m.p.h. and won the Detroit Aviation Town and Country Club's prize. Jones Curtiss-Oriole led this race until forced down near the finish. The Yellow Air Cab took second...
Then the big events-the Pulitzer Cup race and the John L. Mitchell Trophy race. Eleven army pilots competed for the latter, flying Curtiss PW-8 planes with 480-horse engines. They went in a roaring bunch around the triangular course, flirting about the turns so closely that one man's wingtip severed a guy wire supporting a pylon. Lieut. Cyrus Betts, winner, made 175.43 m.p.h. for the 124.27 miles raced...
Only four entrants set off, at intervals of 10 seconds, to fly the Pulitzer speed test. The Navy, winner last year, went unrepresented, having had no appropriation from Congress. Lieut. W. H. Mills in a Verville-Sperry racer, Lieut. W. H. Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel...
...Glenn Curtiss who designed the motor of U. S. dirigible No. 1 and assisted Captain Thomas Baldwin in trial tests. In 1907, Glenn Curtiss collaborated with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (telephone man) in the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, as motor expert and director of experiments. His June Bug, designed and built in 1907, received The Scientific American's trophy of 1908. He won the Gordon-Bennett speed trophy at Rheims, France, in 1909; and, in 1910, was recipient of The New York World's $10,000 prize for a flight from Albany to Manhattan...
...Hammondsport, N. Y., where Curtiss was born, they used to call him "handy at fixing things." Also they would say: "I knew be could do it." Ingenuity, mechanical skill, persistence, enterprise, daring-these were Glenn Curtiss' qualities as early as the days when his bicycle was the speediest, his sled coasted farthest, his motor-cycle a wonder of the day, his skate-sail unique, his birds'-egg collection largest and rarest of all his comrades. His appetite for speed has always been insatiable. Now 46, he still ponders engine construction, streamline, weight reduction in hopes of letting...