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FROM THE FLYING PIONEER BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE
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Sandy Hook, New Jersey from the air. That year he also conducted initial flight tests of the unusual Remington-Burnelli 25-passenger cabin airliner at Garden City, New York, using to Liberty-12 engines. In the fall he also carried a load of distinguished passenger from New York to Kansas City for the American Legion Convention, and also flew a revamped Italian S.V.A. biplane in the 1920 Pulitzer Air races at Mitchell Field.

In 1921 Acosta continued his test flying activities and was engaged by the Curtiss Engineering Group at Garden City, New York to quite an extent in the development of the Curtiss military race planes and the Texas "Wildcat", all with D-12, 400 H.P. engines. He also did considerable flying that year on special assignments. On November 3d he set a new world closed circuit speed record when he won the Pulitzer Trophy Race at Omaha, Nebraska with an official speed of 176.7 M.P.H. flying a Curtiss navy racer. On November 22d he attained a speed of 197.8 M.P.H. during experimental tests of a Curtiss Racer at Garden City, New York.

In the spring of 1923 Acosta conducted initial flight tests of a new model Remington-Burnelli airliner at Curtiss Field, Mineola, New York. On one flight he took off with seventeen passengers on two-thirds engine throttle. In September he flew from Chicago to New York non-stop with reels of title flight movies using a Fokker monoplane.

On April 12th, 1927 Acosta and Clarence Chamberlin took off from Roosevelt Field, New York on an endurance flight that established a new world record of 51 hours, 11 minutes in a Bellanca monoplane, landing on April 14th to surpass the former record of over six hours.

On June 29th Acosta and Bert Balchen took off from Roosevelt Field, New York flying Commander Richard Byrd's Fokker tri-motored monoplane "AMERICA" on a trans-Atlantic flight, intending to fly to Paris, France. In addition to Commander Byrd the plane carried G. A. Noville as navigator. As they approached the European mainland the French coast was fog bound and the Paris airport was closed. After flying around for some time Byrd ordered a surf landing at Ver-Sur-Mur on the north coast of France near Trouville on July 1st, after

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