THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT
HAWKER'S PLANS
A NINETEEN-HOUR TRIP
By Telegraph—Frets Association-Copyright
London, March 19. Hawker's machine is a biplane fitted with a 375 horse-power engine, travelling 8 economically at a hundred miles an hour, t A wireless operator, accompanies the pilot, r The fuselage is constructed similar to a lifeboat, and is supplied with a scientific tuckbox containing food tabloids sufficient; for two days. It is estimated that the journey will occupy nineteen hours.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A SPUR TO EMULATION. ' .£IO,OOO AUSTRALI AN STATE PRIZE. Melbourne, March 20. With a. view of stimulating aerial activity Hie federal Government is ottering 'a prize of £10,000 for a successful (light from England to Australia oil a machine manned by Australians. lreES Assn. RECORD FLIGHT TO PARIS. London, March 19. Brigadier-General Seely, Air Minister, made a record flight from lolkestono to ?aris in seventy-four minutes. He crossed the Channel in ten minutes,-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 5
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152THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 5
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