Milwaukee, May 10—The greatest airplane ever built in America, a mammoth flying liner, with berths, shower baths and luxurious accommodations for 26 passengers, crashed to the ground here on taking off for its maiden flight yesterday. Alfred W. Lawson, designer and builder; the pilot, John Wilcox, and two Milwaukee newspaper men were in the plane but escaped unhurt.
The plane was intended for commercial and transcontinental flights. It was planned to stop at La Cresse and Chicago, and then fly from Chicago to New York.
From the front page of the Wilson Daily Times, May 10, 1921
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