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Show of the Curtiss biplane. It has a surface sur-face of only 15o sejuare feot, but it carries a motor of 05 horsepower and is expected to develop a speed oT'nicrj than R0 miles an hour. The Curtiss biplanes have about 400 feet area of lifting surfaces, while the Wright and Fai mariblplanes have nloiit 520 feet. The new machines are to be operated at Belmont 1'ark by J A. P. MeCurdy and Eugene Fly. CURTISS HAS A NEW AEROPLANE Hamniondsport. X. Y., Oct 19 Tho announcement thnf Glenn II. Curtiss will try out a new monoplane type of racing aeroplane at the Belmont Park tournament follows a b ng period of experimentation with the new machine here. Mr. Curtiss does not designate his new aeroplane, howeier, as a ' monoplane" mono-plane" lie prefers to call It a "single "sin-gle suiface" machine. Strictly speaking, speak-ing, It is a "near-monoplane ' as tho lower plane surfaces are practically eliminated, while, at the same time, the area of the upper plane Is ma-urlally ma-urlally reduced in the interest of speed. However, it does not resemble in any way the monoplane typo In fa-er fa-er abroad. he chassis of the new racing ma-chlne ma-chlne la substantially similar to that |