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Show Great Aviator Says He Hat No "Speed Complex" The world's greatest salesman of speed, Flyer Frank Iluwkes, has taken a day off from flying to protest that he Is "not a speed demon," that he does not want to be a demon, that he Is never reckless, that he does not race, that be Is not after records. lie Is, he protests In the American Ameri-can Magazine, merely a "salesman of speed." Why does he seek to sell speed? Because he Is convinced that the main advance made by present-day civilization lies In the acceleration accel-eration with which things can be transferred from one place to another. an-other. But the speed he sells so he Insists In-sists Is not freak speed, attained In freakish apparatus, under special conditions. It la honest speed, attainable at-tainable by anyone. It Is good, conservative, con-servative, almost humdrum speed. In reaching It he Is never after records, rec-ords, he Is simply cruising, sort of, at a dog-trot, conserving his engine, conserving himself so he says! |