ABOUT ALTITUDE AND OTHER RECORDS
A Colleague’s Impression of Harry in 1913—Harry in the Passenger’s
Seat—“Aerial Leap-Frog”—Competition Flights at Brooklands—Testing
the First “Bat Boat”—End of the First “Bat Boat”—Harry as a
Salesman-Demonstrator—Testing the Second “Bat Boat”—70 Miles per Hour
in 1913—Asçent to 7,450 feet in 15 minutes—A Prize Flight—How Harry
Deserted from a Race which He Won—How a Biplane Beat a Monoplane—More
Seaplane Testing—The British Altitude Record—11,450 Feet—“Bravo,
Hawker!”—A Journalist’s Tribute—Flying in a High Wind—To the Isle of
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