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Show AIR-FLIVVERS. Bert Acosta Hies his Curtiss "Wild- i I cat" airplane 20S miles an hour. This is at Mineola, L. I , during a "spring ! flying meet" the 1922-model county j fair. The speed broke the world's rec-i rec-i ord by five miles. Unluckily for Acos j la, it was not official, so doesn't count in the records. What interested the crowd most I was the Muramert, world's smallest ! alrplanp It weighs G50 pounds, has a wing spread of IS feet and measures only 12 feet the other way. That Is close to the universally desired de-sired flying flivver. All that Is need ed now Is quantity production and a device that will make the plane rise or descend perpendicularly Instead of having to "take off" by gliding over a long landing field. This missing link will be found |