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Sandy Hook, [[strikethrough]] New Jersey [[/strikethrough]], from the air. That year he also conducted initial flight tests of the unusual Remington-Burrelli 25-passenger [[strikethrough]] cabin [[/strikethrough]] airliner at Garden City New York, using two Liberty-l engines. In the fall he [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] carried a load of distinguished passengers 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 Litchel Field.

In 1921 Acosta continued his test flying [[strikethrough]] activities [[/strikethrough]] and was engaged by the Curtiss Engineering Group at Garden City, New York, [[strikethrough]] to quite an extent [[/strikethrough]] in the development of the Curtiss military racing planes and the Texas "wildcat", all with D-12 400 h.p. engines. He also did considerably flying that year on special assignments.  On November 3rd he set a new world closed circuit speed record [[strikethrough]] when he won [[/strikethrough]] the Pulitzer trophy Race at Omaha, Nebraska with an official speed of 176.7 m.p.h. flying a Curtiss Navy racer. On November 22nd 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 a Curtiss Field, Mineola, New York. On one flight he took off with seventeen passengers on two-thirds engine throttle. In Spetember he flew a Tokher monoplane from Chicago to New York non-steop carrying reels of title flight movies [[strikethrough]] using a Fokker monoplane.[[/strikethrough]].

On April 12th, 1927, Acosta and Clarence Chamerlin took off in a Bellanca monoplane from Roosevelt Field, NEw York [[strikethrough]] in a Bellanca monoplane, landing on April 14th to [[/strikethrough]] surpassing the former record by over six hours.

On June 29th 1927, Acosta and Bernt Balchen as pilots with Commander Richard Byrd in charge and George Noville as navigator, New York flying [[strikethrough]] Commander Richard Byrd's [[/strikethrough]] the Fokker tri-motored monoplane "AMERICA", [[strikethrough]] on a trans-atlantic flight [[/strikethrough]] intending to [[strikethrough]] fly to [[/strikethrough]] land at Paris, France. [[strikethrough]] In addition to Commander Byrd the plane carried G. A. Noville as navigator [[/strikethrough]]. 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-Mer on the north coast of France near Trouville. [[strikethrough]] on July 1st [[/strikethrough]] Tey had logged [[strikethrough]] after [[/strikethrough]]
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