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Word: lapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Slow lap.--(3 laps), 13m., 48s., Brookins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY MEET | 9/27/1910 | See Source »

Johnstone.--Duration: first, $2,000; distance: first, $2,000; slow lap, second, $500; accuracy: first, $500. Total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY MEET | 9/27/1910 | See Source »

Brookins.--Altitude: first, $3,000; slow lap: first, $1,000; accuracy: second, $250 (cup). Total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY MEET | 9/27/1910 | See Source »

Prizes were also offered for amateurs in the following events: speed, duration, slow lap, and dropping bombs on dummy battleship. All of these were won by Clifford B. Harmon in a Farman biplane

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY MEET | 9/27/1910 | See Source »

Brookins, also with a Wright biplane, was third in the meet, winning prizes amounting to $4,250. He took first places in the trial for altitude, attaining a height of 4,730 feet, and in that for the slow lap, flying three times around the course in 13 minutes, 48 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY MEET | 9/27/1910 | See Source »

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