THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1919, Page 3

THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

£ [AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] HAWKER’S UNDER-CARRIAGE ’ SALVED. ; NEW YORK, June 13. 1 The New York “Times” . St Johns correspondent states that the undercarriage of tile Sopwitli machine dropped by Hawker upon leaving Newfoundland lias been, landed by a schooner, which found it off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. | N.C. 4’s COMMANDER. j LONGO'- June 12. j Commander Towers, the commander of the United States seaplane N.C. 4 * of its trans-Atlantic flight,, in an interview here, said: “I predict that 1 within five years, that there will he a : chain of international lightships, each being a meteorological station, which will patrol the ocean along the transocean air routes. This will mean a. large initial expenditure, but it will be i well worth while, as the lightships will j be able to aid vessels as well as airI ships. Such a patrol would put trans | Atlantic flying on a substantial basis. !■ The chain could be established by way of the Azores Island, since that is the best flying course but a chain between Newfoundland and Ireland would also be practicable. Lightships every five hundred miles would be (necessary. THE START. 1 „ ST. JOHN’S June 14. . The Vickera-Vimy aeroplane, with Pilot Adcock arid Navigator A. B. Brown aboard, left Newfoundland, to- ( day at 4.13. p.m., Greenwich time (or * 12.15. New York time), bound on a trans-Atlantic flight to Eritrland.