Machine's all-metal construction offered special safety against atmospheric influences of variable climatic conditions; constant changes of moisture and temperature would have rendered wood an unsuitable material; engine BMW VI of the Bayerische Motoren-Werke A.-G. in Munich offered output reserve of about 50 per cent, owing to its very low fuel consumption of 1.6 lb. per mi.; traveling speed, 94 mi. per hr.
Mittelholzer's flight through Africa in a Dornier "Merkur" airplane
Eng. Progress
Engineering Progress ; 8 , n 5
1927
2 Figs.
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