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- ↑ "The Plane That Helped Save Homebuilding". Air Progress. Winter 1969.
- ↑ "Some remarkable experiments in lightplane performance". Popular Aviation. November 1935.
- ↑ 1933 Flying Manual (Mechanix Illustrated).
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