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Show . m WILL REVOLUTIONIZE LONG DISTANCE TOURS . Paris. Feb., 4. Paul Schmidt, nn engineer has constructed an aero-piano aero-piano with extraordinary lifting capacity ca-pacity which he claims will revolutionize revolu-tionize long dlstanco tours and also make an aerial omnibus service feasible. feas-ible. In a trial of tho machine, with Beven men aboard and carryjng an aggregate weight ot a. ton and a halt the air craft rose to a height of about 6000 feet in half an hour. Among the devlco on tho aeroplane is one by which its speed can be regulated. regu-lated. An Ingenious arrangement of the wings permits the new machine t0 rise without the customary violent manipulation of the elevating planes. |