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well suited to our requirements.  It is the best machine with Liberty engines that we found in Europe.

This machine completely loaded weighs about 4,390 pounds with useful load of about 1,530 pounds, which includes five hours' fuel supply.  By a change in its present cooling system, it could very easily be fitted with a supercharger.

The wings, fuselage, and tail unit of this machine are covered with fabric identically that same as the D-VII.

All control surfaces are counterbalanced.

FOKKER 300 PURSUIT - The new Fokker, 300 h.p. Hispano, single-seater, pursuit, is a machine geometrically similar to the Fokker D-VII in its entirety.  It will weigh approximately 2,700 pounds, fully loaded, and will have an area of about 290 square feet.  This machine is now in the course of construction and ought to be completed soon.  As it will be delivered to our Engineering Division, detailed description is unnecessary.

Three days previous to my flight with Mr. Fokker in his new Naval torpedo carrying job, he has sawed off about three feet of the fuselage stern, thus shortening it by that amount and had moved the complete empennage forward in the same measure.  This was entirely done within three days' time.  Mr Fokker stated that

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