Flight Airspeed Record
Rohlfs flew a hydro-aeroplane called the "Dunkirk Fighter" for Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company in 1918. Later that year he broke the Flight airspeed record while flying a Curtiss Wasp, his speed was clocked at 163.1 mph (262.4 km/h).
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Famous quotes containing the words flight and/or record:
“When the flight is not high the fall is not heavy.”
—Chinese proverb.
“One foot in each great ocean
Is a record stride or stretch.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)