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ZEPPLIN STAAKEN PLANES.

The Zepplin Staacken plane is powered with 400 (? above) horsepower B.M.W. engines.  The motors are installed along the leading edges of the wing.  It was inspected at one of the Zepelin plants just outside of Berlin.  This machine has about 100 foot span and about a thirteen foot chord.  The motor mountings are very unique and of the cantilever type, extending out in truss fashion from the main duralumin box spars.  Accessibility to the motors in flight is obtained by the mechanicians' crawling out through manhole sections at the stiffening rib stations in these spars.  The fuselage is about 10 feet deep at its master section and approximately 51/2 feet wide.  It is built entirely of duralumin, no steel being employed anywhere.

The landing gear is of the single, shock absorbing leg and lateral stiffening "vee" type, with two wheels on each side.  The shock absorbing leg terminates in the spar of the main wing.

The covering of the wings is entirely of duralumin.  This machine is very much over weight in its construction and has a very high landing speed as a result.  It is the first representative type, however, of a large, all-metal, internally braced

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