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...what can be done in the air at a low cost. J. M. Johnson of Dayton won, going 64.10 m.p.h. in a little yellow bug with a single, underslung wing on each side. Etienne Dormoy of Dayton flew his cherished "flying bathtub" 50.01 m.p.h. for second prize. H. C. Mummert of Garden City won another low-powered event with his 18-horse Harley-Davidson special...
...great heights, engine power and plane speed drop rapidly, yet the most effective fighting must be done at altitudes of 15,000 feet. Lifting somewhat the veil of mystery which shrouds its work, the British Royal Air Force gives news of tiny monoplanes, no bigger than a Mummert flivver, equipped with 320 horsepower and capable of 150 miles an hour with full military equipment at the greatest heights...
...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...
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