The Archive · 1930

Fast Aeroplane in America

Roosevelt Field, Aug. 18.

Captain Page, of the Marina Corps, in the presence of Flyin Officer D. F. WW. Atcherley and other i men, to-day displayed flying ever seen heres ting a new "mystery" Curtiss eea-hawk monoplane, with Jan engine developing 800 horss-power.

The plane landed at a speed of nearly 100 miles an hour and rolled field, almost the length of the

There is the greatest secrecy in connection with the plane, which is a Navy entry for the Thompson. trophy at Chiengo on September ty It is built to fly at a speed of 208°

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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