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Show FASTEST FRENCH PLANE PARIS. March 2L (Mall) France's fastest airplane today Is the new Nieuport biplane No. 29. which war, completed in the late fall of 1918. and was to have been incorporated as a fighting unit in the French air forces this month. This biplane carries a 3ui horse -power engine and. with a load of 340 pounds, reached at the official tests, a speed of 147 1-2 miles an hour. It climbed 1000 meters in llrt seconds, 3000 meters in 397 seconds sec-onds and 6000 meters in lll'fi seconds. At the later elevation a speed of 131 miles ?n hour was maintained. oo |