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- ↑ "6 Aircraft Companies Plan $5,000,000 Fusion." New York Times. December 21, 1929.
- ↑ "Flying Couple Back From World Trip." New York Times. December 21, 1931.
- ↑ "Gates, Stunt Flier, Ends Life By Leap." New York Times. November 25, 1932.
- ↑ The designation NT-2 does not refer to the NT-1 version of the New Standard D-29 but to two New Standard D-25s captured from smugglers and used by the United States Coast Guard. See: Swanborough, Gordon and Bowers, Peter M. United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911. 2nd ed. London: Putnam, 1976, p. 456.
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