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Show PACKARD 1 GRAFT f IS READYFOR FLIGHT The 200-horsepower aircraft motor which the Packard company has been developing de-veloping in the past two years is about ready to take flight. The process of installing in-stalling the engine in especially constructed con-structed planes is now g"Olng on rapidly, and the first ascension probably will be witnessed within a fortnight. Final work on the motor has been hastened hast-ened by developments in the international interna-tional situation that may create an urgent ur-gent need for aircraft in America. The flying tests of the new engine will be made at the Joy aviation field, near Mt. Clemens, Mich., where there are unusual un-usual facilities for trials over both land and water. W. B. Stout, chief engineer of the Packard aircraft division, says that the machine will not be capable of more than ninety miles an hour, because of the peculiar pe-culiar construction of t he planes made for it. but it will be capable of mounting mount-ing quickly to great heights. His observation ob-servation Is that the machine promises ability to ascend with at least six persons. per-sons. The tests probably will be conducted hy Frank Coffin, an aviator of note and an aeronautic engineer. |