GIANT AEROPLANE
ACCOMMODATION FOR FORTY BUILDING FOR, AMERICA. Association—By Telegraph—Copy ight NEW YORK, May 28. A giant multi-motored airplane capable not only of carrying but of providing sleeping accommodation for thirty-five to forty passengers is now under construction from designs furnished by M. Fokker at his factory at Amsterdam. The machine is designed 'primarily for flying in America, and may he used to inaugurate a transcontinental passenger service from New York to San Francisco. The fuselage of the machine is built in two sections, the upper part of which can be converted into sleeping berths. The machine will have three or more motors, so that it can he navigated with one engine out of commission. It is expected that the machine will make a transcontinental flight in from twenty to thirty hours, as against nearly four days by train. Fokkor said the future of "aviation in the United States was very great, and it may be expected that America will ultimately even outstrip France.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19263, 31 May 1926, Page 5
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