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During the week Lieutenant L. H. Sanderson, of the Marine Corps, flying the Navy-Wright Pulitzer racer, traveled at 238 miles an hour over Mitchel Field, L. I. Later Lieutenant H. J. Brow of the Navy went one better in the Navy-Curtiss racer, attaining the world's record speed of 244 miles an hour. Finally Lieutenant Alford J. Williams (Navy) went 255 miles per hour in another Navy-Curtiss...
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...
Members of the Committee on Economic Research for next year are: Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Law '15, Mr. Robert Amory '06, Dr. Charles Jesse Bullock, Mr. Frederic Haines Curtiss, Mr. Wallace Brett Donham '98, Mr. Ogden Livingston Mills '05, and Mr. Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer...
...Syracuse team has overridden all the teams in the country in 1921 and 1922 and has not met defeat this year. Because of this record Syracuse University has decided to send the team to England this summer where it will meet Oxford and Cambridge. HARVARD SYRACUSE Curtiss, g. g., MacAloney Rouillard, p. p., Wertz Black, c.p. c.p., Fisher Daggett, 1d. 1d., Fitch Norton, 2d. 2d., Failing Tobin, 3d. 3d., Dixon Merriam, c. c., Bertenshaw Norris, 3a. 3a., Townsend Thomas, 2a. 2a., Schmidt Young, 1a. 1a., Corey Watson, o.h. o.h., French Cole, i.h. i.h., Ross
Macready and Kelly will now attempt to fly around the globe. Lieut. R. L. Maugham, will pilot the Curtiss Army plane-speed record of 245 miles per hour-across the continent in a daylight flight. But more solid significance is attached to the coast-to-coast flight than introduction to further records. It means a tremendous boost for the Air Mail plan of continuous service between New York and San Francisco. It points to the entire feasibility of commercial air lines across the continent. Ultimately no business house will be able to afford any mail but air mail; no business...