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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
"Caterpillar" Fifteen speeds "Winnie Mae" on record flightThe Winnie Mae and Caterpillar 15 with H. H. Orser driving it. At 5:40 A.M. on the morning of July 22nd a shout went up from the crowd that had waited all night at the airport in Edmonton, Alberta, to see Wiley Post and his staunch ship "Winnie Mae" complete the treacherous flight from Fairbanks, Alaska, and take off on the last hop that was destined to bring them to New York City at midnight of the same day with a new globe-girdling record of 7 days 18 hours 49 minutes. But as the weary watchers kept their vigil through the stormy night many doubts assailed them. Could flesh and blood stand such a gruelling test? Could the plane maintain its almost miraculous pace and could it land and take off again from the soggy Edmonton Field? For hours the rain had been falling and the field was a sea of mud. What if... 799 of 3070 characters shown.
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