ATLANTIC FLY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 5

ATLANTIC FLY

MAKING PROGRESS. '{United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] i (Received this day at 8 a.in.) , LONDON, Sept. 2. ' Costes flight is causing the greatest excitement in France. If lie succeeds, Costes intends to fly from New York to Bagdad in a non-stop attempt to break the non-stop record. '-h NEW YORK, Sept, 2. With weather reports from Newfoundland rapidly changing during the early hours of the morning, the “Question Mark” when apparently 400 miles off the coast felt tho first effects of fog and adverse winds. It then reported to the steamer Jacques Cartier that it had changed its course further (south, approximately at midnight, New York time.

The liner America at 3 a.m. relayed a report from the Bremen whose navigators estimated tlie position of the airplane at 46 north, 40 west when the change ensued, ahd ic was then 400 miles east of Newfoundland.

r Between utile ill the evening niid midnight, the machine apparently )h,ad; maintained an even hundred juiles nn hour, with no adverse viude on a course nearly due west, hut from .tiipn on the winds became easterly find an area of poor visibility deyeloped over the easternmost portion of North American continent. NEW YORK, Sept. 2. The Jacques Cartier reported the position of the plane as 43 north, 41.!,15 west, about 1725 miles from New York. new york, sept. 2. ■Coste radio report, five a m. New York time, stated the plane was off Cape Race indicating that after swerving south to avoid adverse weather conditions, it had resumed its due \ westerly course, within a- short interval. t Despite the change in the Weather, Doctor Kimball stated he belie.'ed the conditions present no serious obstacle to the plane. There were no general storms or fogs along the coast line of Canada, and scattered thunderstorms were only local. Cloudy whether, however, lay all the way frbni Newfoundland to New York. COSTE SUCCESSFUL. FIRST FROM CONTINENT TO CONTINENT. _ NOT YET LANDED. • (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) . NEW YORK, Sept. 2. gt. Pierre Miquelon radio station was in communication with Coste at eight o’clock this morning (New York time) the machine reporting it would shortly be over Cause. All aboard were well.

A later message states Coste passed’ south of St. Pierre shortly before six on Tuesday morning. „ The machine reported all well at 11 a.m. local time and is reported to have passed over County Harbour (Nova Scotia). Later Costes’ airplane communicated with Gloucester (Massachusetts) naval radio at 1.30 p.m. local time, having previously been reported as flying over Halifax. i NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Costes’ machine was flying along Maine Coast on Tuesday afternoon at an estimated average of a hundred miles an hour from Le Bourget to Miquelon, and already has the distinction of the first non-stop flight from the Continent of Europe to the Continent of: America, with every probability of completing the 'first Paris to New York non-stop flight. REPORTED IN MID-ATLANTIC. ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland) Sept. 1. At seven-twenty p.m., Eastern standard time, on Monday, a wireless message was picked up from the German liner “Bremen,” reporting the position of Costes’s plane as 50.10 degres north latitude, and 36.40 degrees west longitude. The barometer was then falling. NEARING NEWFOUNDLAND, r- - ; GOOD CONDITIONS. NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Referring to Costes’ flight, the steamship “America” has reported that compass bearing from the liner “Breman” at 10 p.m. (local time) placed Costes’s plane at 46,00 degrees north latitude and 40.00 degrees west longtitude—a position approximately four hundred miles east of the Newfoundland coast. There was then an ideal light westerly wind, and the visibility was good. PASSED OVER BOSTON. (Received this dav at. 11 a.ra.) NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Costes machine (“Question Mark”) passed Boston at 4.26 p.m. A sudden electric stonn here on Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 lasted for half an hour, leaving the sky overcast. * Curtis Field is crowded with thousands of people awaiting the fliers.

ACCOMPLISHED. A RECORD FLY. COSTES LANDS AT NEW YORK. '■> (Received this dav at. noon.) NEW YORK, Sept. 2. - Coste landed at Curtis Field at 6.12 p.m. 37. hours 18) minutes after leaving Paris.