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Show GERMANS BUILD AIRPLANE TO MAKE ATLANTIC FLIGHT LONDON, Dec. 6. The Germans are building an airplane with which they intend in-tend trying a trip across the Atlantic, and have a Zeppelin under construction with tiie same idea in view, according to the correspondent at Berlin of the Daily Express. The correspondent says be learned this when being shown over an aircraft factory at Staaken, a suburb of Berlin. The machine, says the corresponded, corre-sponded, has a wing spread of 108 feet and engines of 3000-horsepower. Almost immediately after the armistice was signed the Staaken plant began con- j vert-In the flghtlnff planes on hand Into j commercial machines, intended to link all t ha European capitals with Berlin, and dozens of planes built entirely of ahimi-. ahimi-. num are being transformed for postal service. The correspondent says that the Zeppelin Zep-pelin factory at Friedrichshafen is hund-intf hund-intf an airship for a transatlantic voyage capable of carrying 10 0 passenpers. It has nine engine and eight propellers. |