FLYING THE ATLANTIC.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1365, 16 February 1912, Page 6

FLYING THE ATLANTIC.

AMERICAN'S DARING PROPOSAL. Harry Atwood, the American aviator, who aeroplaned last year from St. Louis, Missouri, to New York, a distance of about fIOO miles, will attempt in April to fly from Newfoundland to the West Coast of Ireland in a hydroplane of his own construction. Atwood declines to bo interviewed at the present *Urp (says the A'ew York correspondent of liis "Daily Telegraph"), but friends whom the aviator has taken into his confidence ffnte that nil the preliminary arrangements have, been made, and that the work of constructing the aircraft will soon commence.

The distance of the contemplated flight is approximately 2450 miles, which could be covered, according to Atirood's estimate, in thirty hcurs. To accomplish this f?at he would be. obliged to maintain n speed of more tbou eighty-one miles an hour. It is pointed out that; a hydroplane capable, of travelling at such a speed has. not ypf been built; but Atwood seems confident' that the task of construction is nrt insupn-abK So far as can be learned, hip hydroplane will be an improved typo of flying machine, and considerably larger than those in use at present. Tt will have longer wings and (ail, with a double prop"!!er action, ond n 50 horsf-powcr engine. The (light i= set for "oxt A>»-il from the east const of Newfoundland. Tlio start is scheduled for eight o'clock in (lie evening, and during tho hours nf darkness the eumpnss and the chart will be AI wood's onlv guides. At daylight his fir.st effort will be made, according to his plan, to net in the course of eoe.-in liners, and this will be followed during tl)r> remainder of tlio proposed trip. His only companiou will Ik? a nwhanie. ;ind 1111 wireless equipment -\rill be carried. Arcording to At wood's arrangement, the cirryiii" of n largo cjinntity nf ens.il line Ik , " boon, overcome. The aviator ipreilltH with diviner tin) his St. T.oinV . N.-w York flHif was merely a rreKminnrv lest to the prnposed Transatlantic (rip. and nwing lo the experience gained he ; s c'ufidmil (hat he can »-n a f|iov anv Atlantic stnr,,,, He will nslt (he l"nil"d Slnl«s Gnvermn»nt. to cocnernte by st;\tinn : n? sevor.il destroyers the proposed route.

The nn'i"r«. in uri'i <l>« nropoied (light, urge that sue!' foolhardinrss slioi.ld be voslr n i-v.d. 'I'],, ,1 n ,,»,. vs in the c:\-o »f tho Siicli-wd airship'-- nro--11---ed Ili'tht. and "Wellman's •ilhiiilk' venture, wore groal enoiwli but In nll.-mnl :, fli.-l.| in" ■, livdrnplnii" in 'Is invent >lag.> nf .'o.v.-bpui'"'l. -uid willionl an Miov"i,-u-- fleet of lifeboats patniUing the Atlantic rout p. would be madiuw-".

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