Word: rumpler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigger than any of these is the flying boat which Germany's Edmund Rumpler says he is designing. It is to have 10 motors with 10,000 h. p. capacity, accommodations for 135 passengers and 35 crew...
Winged superboats driven by 12 engines and capable of carrying 100 or more passengers are under construction at the Junkers and Rumpler works. Japan has ordered...
...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...
...could remember Romancers Jules Verne or H. G. Wells having compassed a greater imaginative flight than Herr Rumpler. Yet many a newspaper reader with an open mind about the future filed away the despatch from Dusseldorf for their grandchildren to muse over some...
...time had come, Herr Rumpler said, to build an enormous airplane that he had designed, a plane with ten 28-cylinder motors capable of 10,000 total horsepower; with wings each spanning 400 feet, in which there would be cabins for the 130 passengers whom the air leviathan could whisk across the Atlantic in 36 hours. There would be six huge pontoons for landing, if necessary, on the sea, and in these a crew of 25 mechanics would be berthed. Tons of trunks and fuel for 16 hours of top-speed flying were provided with stowage and lifting power. From...