Word: wingspread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Junkers G-38. Powered by four 575 h.p. Hornet engines, the 8-40 is designed to fly nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common use. The wingspread, however, will be 114 ft.; the loaded weight, 30,000 lb.; and the 58-ft. hull will have the cabin facilities of a commodious cruiser...
...three pairs of legs and, usually, two pairs of wings attached to the thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth Erebus agrippina, spread 11 in. But a fossil dragon fly had a 2-ft. spread...