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Show DEVICE TO REFUEL PLANES IN FLIGHT 1 PARIS. Jan. 7. An invention r 1 cently perfected by Godfrey Cabot I of Cambridge, Blast the Aim rl an del- BBJ egate It is designed to make pos- EBb hible the taking up of fuel b BH airplane in motion, aroused great In- BjBJ terest at tho first congress on uer- V lal navigation held here. wVJ Transatlantic air travel would be VMV greatly facilitated by this method as HJH stops at "airmen's Islands" would not BB bo necessary at intervals In the At- flBj 'antic ocean and airplanes would have BB much additional space available for VJ pHHsengers and mall which otherwise I would be taken up by fuel sufficient li for one crossing. BBB Mr Cabot thinks that transatlantic iB air navigation will bo a paying prop- : Bg ' " osition Within 15 years provide, iBB planes do not carry fuel enough for lj an entire trip. With a minimum of I 'I "J'-1 snd a maximum of space for mail ', nd passengers It could bo made a ;B, successful enterprise, Mr. Cabot said Wm He assumed that ocean ,TinKv would be quite ordinary oocurrencei ( within a few years. |