Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — CARRIES WEIGHT ALMOST EQUAL TO ITS OWN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARRIES WEIGHT ALMOST EQUAL TO ITS OWN

View of the Thomas Morse mail plane which recently accomplished a feat long the dream of aviation when with a useful weight almost equal to Its own. It gracefully left the snow and slush at Ithaca, N. craft Is a biplane evolved and produced by the Thomas Morse Aircraft corporation. Its weight empty ’• 2,890 pounds Its weight loaded Is 5,500 pounds. Thus Its useful load ts 2,610 pounds, or only 280 pounds less than the weight of the craft. Many planes carry less than half their weight