Word: racer
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...content with holding the world's speed record, Lieutenant A. J. Williams achieved the world's climb record in his famous racer- rising Iike a rocket to a height of 5,000 feet in one minute...
...racer," declared the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table one morning, "is most cultivated and reaches his greatest perfection in England...
Died. Pietro De Palma, 78, grain and oil merchant, father of Automobile Racer Ralph De Palma, at Foggia, Italy...
Lieutenant A. J. ("Al") Williams, formerly pitcher for the New York Giants, won the Pulitzer Race (at St. Louis) in a Curtiss-Navy racer at an average speed of 243.67 miles per hour over the triangular course of 200 miles. Lt. H. J. Brow in a similar machine averaged 241.78 and Lt. L. H. Sanderson of the Marine Corps flying a Navy-Wright plane of 750 horsepower was third with a speed of 230 miles per hour. Of the seven picked entries, the three Navy pilots won the first three places. Not a casualty or even a broken wire marked...
...four machines finally starting, the Curtiss-Navy racer came in first, with Lieut. David Kittenhouse, U. S. N., piloting magnificently over the course of 186 miles at an average speed of 177.4 miles per hour. The winning airplane was built in 1921 as a land plane and carried off the Pulitzer cup in that year. With floats added and a more powerful motor, it brought more glory to its builders and to American aviation. The victory insures the holding of the contest next year in the U. S., with Long Island Sound as the most probable site...