World War II Timeline - 1925

In 1925 Jimmy Doolittle won the Schneider Cup Race with an average speed of 232 miles per hour in a Curtiss Navy racer equipped with pontoons, setting a world seaplane speed record. (from Smithsonian Airs and Space Museum, Washington DC)

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