AERONAUTICS: Flying House
The Standard Oil Co. ordered, and the Stout Metal Airplane Co. of Michigan promised delivery on Aug. 10 of a "flying house."
The house is to be built in an ordinary fuselage 45 ft. long, supported on the ground by an immense undercarriage fitted with 44 by 10 in. tires, supported in the air by wings spanning 60 ft. There will be cabin accommodations (including berths) for six passengers, pilot, mechanic, cook. Features are electric lighting, heating from the engine exhausts, and electric stove and refrigerator system in the cook's galley, typewriter, writing desk.
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