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Show New Monoplane on Lines of' Merry Widow" Hat 1 THIS TM COlXCgrS. -JlOMMi; yiONQJ-I-ANaT- I NEW YOB K. The prise exhibit ia tho Belmont park collection of machines ma-chines during the winter waa take away reeeatly. This was the McOor-mick McOor-mick Romme monoplane, embodyins: rrobably the moot radical departure rem accepted design ever eeea in the ea-t. 'Imagine an inverted "Merry Widow hat fortv-four feet aeroaa. the rrowa nmovad, and in the center a hollow meat tea feet in height, supported sup-ported on a wheel and held ia place by aine bamboo radial At oae side of the plane, which might be called the rear, although the main part of the structure forma a circle, is the rudder and nroncllpr. tha Istter at the extreme rear. At each side of the, front ta a wheel supporting the light, j steel tubed chassis. The engine and the operator are placed midway be- j tween the mast and the forward outer rim. ia direct liae with the propeller. The machine complete weighs only 350 pounds and haa a lifting surface of about 70U lnnr feus |