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Show "Flying Laboratory" for Amelia Earhart .s- , fixt 4x N x N.rT s - .wxs i'hls Lockheed all-metal monoplane was built at Burbank, Calif., as a -nying laboratory" for Amelia Earhart on order from the Amelia Earhart Fund tor Aeronautical Research, and the famous flyer Is st-en Inspecting It. After tests and trial flights she will fly It to Purdue university, Indiana, where the program or research re-search will be carried out. The plane Is powered with two Pratt and Whitney Wasp engines of 550 horsepower each, driving Hamilton constant speed metal propellers. Instead of passenger seats. It carries additional fuel tanks for extended non stop (lights. Special instruments Include a Sperry robot pll"t, de-icing appliances on the leading edge of the wing and stabilizer, and a new type fuel analyzer which enables fuel consumption to be kept t a minimum under all flying conditions. Radio homing device und two-way radio telephonp ore also Installed In the pilot's compartment, |