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...first man booked in Connecticut police stations for violating the aviation law which prohibits flying below 2,000 feet over population centres. Acosta plead guilty, apologized, went to jail. Meanwhile sheriffs hurried up from New Jersey to complicate his chancery. Warrants were out for his arrest. The Splitdorf Electric Co. complained that Acosta owed $4,445 for electrical equipment in a plane with which he planned to try for the endurance record. A sheriff's writ attached the plane. Acosta climbed in by night and flew it to Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gaol | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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