ATLANTIC AIR RACE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 200, 19 May 1919, Page 5

ATLANTIC AIR RACE

AMERICANS REACH AZORES 1200 MILES IN 14 HOURS BRITISH AIRMEN READY TO START By Telegraph—Press Ajsoclation-Oopyriisht (Eec. May 17, 5.5 p.m.) St. John's (Newfoundland), May 16. The United States seaplanes N.C. 1 and N.C.i have started on the trans-Atlanlic flight.—Aus. T W.Z. Cable Assn. ARRIVAL AT AZORES. (Rec. May 18, 5.5 p.m.) Horta (Azores), May 17. The United States trans-Atlantic (tier N.C.4 arrived at 9.30 a.m. from Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland. Her time was U hours 13 minutes for 1200 miles. Three machines started.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ' EXPECTED AT LISBON SUNDAY HORNING TWO SEAPLANES LOST IN THE FOG. (Rec. May 18, 11 p.m.) London, May 1". The United States seaplane N.C.4 has arrived at the Azores. She left Trepassey i Bay at eleven o'clock on Friday evening, her actual flying time being . 13 hours 15 minutes, and her fjeed one hundred miles per hour. The pilot expects to resume the noxt staße of his flight tonight, arriving at Liebon on Sunday morning. The crew will rest at Lisbon for fortv-eight hours, and will arrive at Plymouth on Tuesday. • '

Seaplanes N.C.I and N.C.3, which were accompanying N.C.4, have not arrived at the Azores. N.C.I sent out S.O.S. calls iit three o'clock in the afternoon, and is believed to have got lost in a foj; and compelled to descend to the water. Four destroyers are searching for her. N.C.B has also been missiiiK since she signalled in the forenoon when flying off the course.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.\ WIRELESS MESSAGES EVERY HOUR. (Bee. May 18, 11 p.m.) New York, May 17. The "Evening. Sun'e" Horta correspondent says that the other two United States seaplanes are reported to have been lost in a fog off the Assores, but expected to pick up their course again and arrive shortly. The .course of the flight is being patrolled by United States warships and other warships, stationed at intervals of fifty miles. They received every hour wireless messages from the seaplanes. N.C.4 maHe (he trip from Trepassey Bay to Horla in 15 hours 13 minutes COAnother report states that N.C.I alighted on the sea two hundred miles south of Faynl.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. N.C.I CREWRESCIIED (Rec. May 19, 0.25 a.m.) ■ ■ ■ Washington, May 17. The Navy Department ajuiounces that the steamship lona rescued the crew o* seaplane N.C.I 55 miles south-east o> Corvo Island (the northernmost of the Azores group).—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ; THE BRITISH IfLYERS READY (Rec. May 17, 5.5 p.m.) St. John's (Newfoundland), May 17. Raynha'm and Hawker are preparing to start.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INTEREST IN THE AMERICANS. New York, May !). The New York "Times" correspondent at St. John's states that Hawker and Raynham showed great interest in the report of the arrival of two American seaplanes at Halifax, after the firet stage of the trans-Atlantic flight. The arrival of the Americans will not weaken the determination, of the British airmen to await the beet weather conditions before they attempt the flight to England.—Aus.. N.Z. Cable Assn. i