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Bob Burman is the man in the Buick racer.

First engine propelled heavier-than-air machine to appear on Daytona Beach. Built by Carl Bates and two other Chicago men. It had a 10 hp engine that Bates designed. With a large crowd watching,the plane failed to take off. Bates wrote for Aeronautics magazine that on March 29th he "made a flight of 460 yards...and would have flown further if the flywheel I had held longer, but it suddenly came loose again, setting up a terrific vibration, which caused the propeller to break loose and shatter the ribs and main rear timbers of the aeroplane. Bates never submitted to the Aero Club of America the required number of corroborating statements from witnesses. If he had, he would be credited with the first airplane flight in Florida. Instead, that honor went to Lincoln Geachey, who flew in Orlando, in February 1910.