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Show i FOKKER, PLANE INVENTOR, PAYS NEW YORK A VISIT NEW MRK, Nov. 11 A. II. G. Fokker. inventor and builder of war-) time combat airplanes, arrived Wed-' nesday from Rotterdam. The Fokker was the swiftest pursuit plane used by German air fighters on the western west-ern front. Mr. Fokker, Tho ald as a Holland-, er he had taken no personal part in Germany's war operations over the, tilled lines, predicted, rapid advances in the art of flying In the near fu j ture. "Within the next f 1 t or ten years, he sAld. "people ll be able to cross, th Atlantic In les than dar and in much more comfort than in travel by steamer." The development of directional wireless, wire-less, he added, would enaldc pilots to fly by night and in murky weather as well as on clear days. The most needed Improvement In avlatloo foj the present he said, was ronstru-tion of fb InK machines capa-blo capa-blo of landln'f on and taking off from small areas such as, the roof of btilln-ings. btilln-ings. GO |