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Last week, in response to a Navy call for bombing craft, Curtiss presented its new Wasp-powered XF8C-4 biplane at Mitchell Field, L. I. Testpilot William Crosswell put the ship through gruelling 7,000-ft. vertical dives, throttle wide open, levelling off suddenly at 300 m. p. h. His observer was taken so ill that a substitute was necessary...