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Show Small Flying Machine. M. Santos Dumont's new flying machine ma-chine is so smal! that it travels comfortably com-fortably on the back of his motor car. It is a monoplane, with a 24-horse-power Antoinette motor, weighing 58 kilos, and making 1,400 revolutions a minute. The total weight is about 150 kilos. The aeroplane was expected to fly at 0 kilometers an hour, and to rise from the ground as soon as it attained at-tained a speed on its three wheels of 50 kilometers an hour. On the fourth trial Dumont flew, but was unfortunate enough to damage one of the new machine's ma-chine's wheels. |