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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than a landing gear, a seaplane cannot travel as fast as a land plane. But 185.8 miles per hour is not a negligible speed. This is the world's seaplane record, made at Philadelphia last week by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton, in the U. S. Navy-Wright seaplane NW-2, entered for the Schneider Cup race to be held at Cowes, England, on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Seaplane Record | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

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