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...wide. Above the wings were six turrets supporting six pairs of tandem motors. Mechanics, climbing up through the turrets, inspected the motors. Below the mono-wing on each side was a float like the half wing of a sesquiplane. The great structure was the mighty enlargement of Dr. Claude Dornier's Super-Whale, which he had been secretly building for two and a half years. Its flying capacity was 100 passengers. It was going on its trial runs. Dr. Dornier, usually self-contained and impassive, stood nervously on the lake shore, watch in hand. He gave a signal...
...occurred at about 2:15 a. m., 750 miles northwest of Horta, happy starting point in the Azores. He and his companions waited during 15 minutes of flames for an explosion that never came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position and corrected position signals, grew seasick. All wireless resources spanning the Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses...
Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...
...Dornier Superwal model, with two Rolls-Royce-Conder motors, takes 21 passengers, crew of four. In tests it lifted 60 persons, a freight load greater than the ship's weight when empty...
...this duty by the U. S. Naval Air Service. Recently married, Mrs. Davison begged her husband that she be allowed to accompany him on a novel honeymoon. By a fortunate compromise, she will go with him to Pisa. Italy, where Amundsen's planes are under construction by Dornier, famed German designer, and from there to Spitzbergen, Norway. The expedition (set for July) plans to explore the territory between Spitzbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow, Alaska. Apart from collecting data for scientific aeronautics, Amundsen and Davison will explore 1,000,000 square miles of territory, and gather information...