The Archive · 1938

Levier Wins Flying Speed Contest

Narrow Escape From Crash On Landing

Cleveland, Sept. 4.

Mr. Anthony Wilhelm Levier, flying a 26 Schoefeldt monoplane won the U.S$25,000 Grove Trophy race at the eighteenth annual National Air Races today when he won the 200-mile closed course event in the new record. speed of 247.300 miles an hour. He averaged this speed over forty laps of the five-mile course.

Viking (N; J. Stabb)

on (J. Dalton)

Mr. Art Chester of Los Angeles and Mr. Joe Jacobson of Kansas Mann), Ella (J. H. Blakelock). Restless Ker (w. D. Neil)

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