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522 ILLUSTRATED WORLD<br />

A GIANT PLANE<br />

The aircraft above is one of the largest<br />

ever built in the United States. Its wing<br />

spread is 73 feet; it is driven by two engines<br />

of 130 horsepower each. Five persons<br />

and three guns can be carried.<br />

THE GREATEST AEROPLANE<br />

FACTORY<br />

No outsider knows even approximately<br />

the number of aeroplanes turned out daily<br />

by this immense plant—the Curtiss brothers'<br />

factory, which is half in Canada and<br />

half in the United States. Until a short<br />

time ago. the whole of this output—which<br />

a conservative estimate places at one hundred<br />

machines a day—has gone to England<br />

and France. Now, however, the<br />

United States is going to have to requisition<br />

a portion of it, at least, in order that<br />

our naval forces may have "eyes" as well<br />

as stings.

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