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Show Powerful Plane Motor Developed FARM1NGDALE, N. Y., March 7 KV.) The Ranger Engineering corporation announced today that it has developed a new streamlined stream-lined airplane motor which is the most powerful in the world in proportion pro-portion to its size. It is air-cooled; has 12 cylinders in inverted-V formation; devolops 500 horsepower and weighs only 640 pounds. It is 200 pounds lighter'than any in-line motor now produced in Europe. Its frontal area is only 28 by 32 inches, much smaller than any -European motor, and less than one-third the area of- the American radial motors of equal horsepower. |