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Plane Makers Believe Speed Limit Has Not Been Reached, September 15, 1923

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Summary:
Article and accompanying photo from the Sun and Globe reporting on the notion that engineers were uncertain how fast planes would actually get after factoring in items like reduced weight and greater horsepower engines. Lieutenant Harold J. Brow is photographed before his Curtiss-Navy plane he used to break the air speed record of the day.
Title: Plane Makers Believe Speed Limit Has Not Been Reached, September 15, 1923.
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Name(s): The Sun and Globe, Newspaper
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: Newspaper Clipping
Date Created: 1923-09-15
Publisher: West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the National Naval Aviation Museum
Extent: 1 large newspaper cut out
Language(s): Eng
Summary: Article and accompanying photo from the Sun and Globe reporting on the notion that engineers were uncertain how fast planes would actually get after factoring in items like reduced weight and greater horsepower engines. Lieutenant Harold J. Brow is photographed before his Curtiss-Navy plane he used to break the air speed record of the day.
Identifier: uwfnam_HJBbox3_9-15-1923_PlaneMakers (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime Digital Portal Project
Subject(s): Brow, Harold J. -- Aviation History -- Naval History -- 1920's
Held by: University of West Florida
Held by: National Naval Aviation Museum
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwfnam_HJBbox3_9-15-1923_PlaneMakers
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF

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