interesting to me is that both planes apear to have convenional cowling for oppossed cylinder engines.


---- Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
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> World's 1st formation take off of rotary powered planes.  Shady Bend
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> I believe that this was an historical event in having two rotary powered
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> Ed Anderson
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