The Curtiss R2C was a single-seat racing biplane that Curtiss designed for the United States Navy in 1923, with a monocoque fuselage, staggered single-bay wings of unequal span braced with I-struts, a top wing mounted directly on the fuselage, and surface-mounted radiators. Two R2C-1 landplanes were built and took first and second in the 1923 Pulitzer Trophy at about 243 and 241 mph; one then set a world speed record of 259.16 mph. The second was sold to the Army as the R-8 and destroyed in a training crash that killed Lieutenant Alexander Pearson. The other became the R2C-2 floatplane, won the 1924 Pulitzer seaplane class at 227.5 mph, and ended as a trainer for the 1925 and 1926 Schneider teams.
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The Curtiss R2C was a racing aircraft
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The aircraft ended its days training pilots for the 1925 and 1926 Schneider Trophy races.
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