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...flying across Europe in a commercial airliner recently, that Tourist Kern met, as fellow-passenger, Willibald Seypelt, German flier during the War. Enthusiastically, Pilot Seypelt told the U. S. tourist of a tiny plane made in Stuttgart, after the designs by one Hans Klemm. Together they went to Stuttgart, found a little monoplane, with long low-set wings and a short body, the latest idea in European airplane design. Only 22 feet long, it had a wingspread of 43 feet. A 29-h.p. Klemm-Daimler motor furnished the power to carry about 400 pounds...
Tourist Kern, enthusiastic, wrote a check; in two and one-half hours of instruction he became Flier Kern. With Pilot Seypelt they set out over Europe, over nine different countries, 5,000 miles Total expenditures for gas, oil, etc.: $180. In the U. S., where gasoline and oil are cheaper, the cost would have been no more than one cent a mile...
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