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won by MacCready

In Paul Beattie MacCready
…course required to win the Kremer Prize of £50,000 (\$95,000), clearing a 10-foot- (3-metre-) high start-and-finish line while making a figure-eight flight around two pylons set half a mile apart. The total distance flown was 1.15 miles (1.85 km) in 6 min 27.05 s, at a top speed of 11…
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