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Show The form of Curtiss biplane which travels on the water and land as well as in the air Is winning admiration at San Diego. The machine Is a standard biplane equipped with bicycle bi-cycle wheels and a pontoon about three feet wide by twelve feet in length placed immediately beneath the aviator with its long axis at right angles to the planes. At the extremities of the lower plane are two small triangular copper tanks, whose function is to prevent the planes from cutting too deeply Into the water. wa-ter. Mr. Curtiss seems to have thought of everything but a name for his novel craft. The suggestion that It be known as the hydroterro-aeroplane hydroterro-aeroplane shows closer acquaintance with the classics than with the habit of the American people to Insist upon cutting long words short. |