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| At the urging of the Aeronautical Society of New York to represent it in the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup Race in France, Curtiss built a larger version of No.1 and installed a new 60hp V-8 engine, which was a carefully-guarded secret until the racer was set up in France in August.
Flying against the clock rather than other aeroplanes, Curtiss completed
the 20km closed course at a world's record 69.76km/h. The
Reims Racer was later used by Curtiss and his pilots for exhibition work
and other record flights in the United States.
Peter M. Bowers "Curtiss Aircraft 1907-1947", 1979
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Returning to the United States, Curtiss flew the Reims Racer in the country's first air meet at Dominguez Hills in October, setting a new airspeed record of 55 mph (88 km /h). Curtiss sold the Reims Racer to Charles Hamilton, who crashed it in Seattle on 12 March the following year.
General characteristics
• Crew: One pilot
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
• Wingspan: 34 ft 0 in (10.37 m)
• Powerplant: 1 × Curtiss vee-8, 63 hp (47 kW) reply | | Rick Chartrand, e-mail, 25.02.2011 01:30 I believe I have prints of the earlest Curtis racer (taken from glass negatives in the late 1940's). Are you inteerested?
Rick Chartrand
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Bellingham, WA reply | | Ashlee, e-mail, 21.08.2009 07:50 What was this plane made out of? reply |
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