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Show Age of Giants Coming That giant plane of the German engineer, Dornier, with its three decks and twelve engines, makes any planes that America has produced look pretty small and weak. But, American engineers and capital are giving the Dornier the closest study, and American supremacy will arrive, sooner, or 1 later. Let Engineer Dornier demonstrate two things the commercial value of giant, heavy planes and ease in getting ' them off the ground and then watch America ! However, in America, thus far. practically all the pio-, pio-, neer Work in aviation has been initiated not by commercial interests but by the army. The first flying Pupil of the Wright brothers was an 1 army officer. The first, aivpkne sold, by the Wright. brothers i was purchased and flown by the army. - - - The first high altitude record was made by the army. ' The first non-stop flight from the Pacific to the Atlantic ; j the first dawn to dusk flight across the continent; the first . j flight around the world ; the flight to Alaska; the first flight 1 j to Porto Rico; the first to Panama; the first to Hawaii, the first around South America! |