GERMAN 'PLANES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 9

GERMAN 'PLANES.

TO CROSS TO AMERICA. (FBOlt OUR ovrx cobeespondkst.) S \N FRANCISCO, December 10. Two monster new aeroplanes, intenand for regular trans-Atlantic flights Iron, Europe to America, are "under construction" in Germany, it was announced in New York by the German Railways Information Office, No. wu Fifth avenue. Their arrival m New York is not imminent, the most hopeful prediction being that "it is expected a test flight will be completed some time next year." _ The Junkers Airplane Works au Dessau is said to be building the lesser of the two machines, which lias a wing-spread of 262 i feet, itwo fuselages 78 feet long, and a j monoplane wing /ft 6in thick by '.Wit i Bin wide. It is to be driven by four j 11000 hcrsc-power motors, weighing 35i j tons, and carries 100 passengers. Dr. Edmund Rumpler is named as the- designer of the other iicroplane, which has a "flying wing" 308 feet from tip to tip, without body or tail in the conventional sense. The wing is 30 feet thick, and is to be guided by rudders on top of it and Aileron elevattors attached to the trailing edge. Its estimated loading weight is 113 tons, of which 20 tons may be passengers and freight, and its predicted speed is 155 miles an hour. The plans call for ten 1000 horse-power motors.