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...Curtiss Airport, thousands of sight seers marveled at the size of the DO-X (157 ft. 5 in. wingspread, 131 ft. 4 in. long), at her aluminum body, her interior arranged like that of a Pullman car with well-cushioned seats, which can be converted into berths, facing each other on both sides of a central aisle. Experts made allowances for the extraordinary series of delays and postponements which had made her long flight almost comically slothful. Engineering and operative problems, in creasing in proportion to the size of a plane, could only be solved in actual flight. Captain Hammer...
Last week near Manoa, Pa., Farmer John Trout showed Game Warden Robert T. MacFarlane a bald eagle with a wingspread of better than seven feet which he had slain with two blasts of his shotgun. Warden MacFarlane exonerated Farmer Trout on the strength of Mrs. Trout's story: that she had seen the great bird swooping into the farmyard to carry off their daughter Dorothy...
...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...
...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...