AIRCRAFT.
PROPOSED TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received February 25, 10.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 24.
Lieutenant Porte, of the British Naval Flying Corps, is willing to pilot a trans-Atlantic aeroplane. Mr .J. Wanamaker will finance the venture. GERMAN NATIONAL FLYING *.';, ; r V,FUND: ;".., ■- ■vA YEAfewORK. ,;•;-, -"*■ (Received February 25, 10.55 p.m.) BERLIN, February 25. The German national flying fund in 1913 received £361,725, and expended £107,975 in prizes, £57,613 in training pilots, £28,905 in insuring pilots, and £24,000 in the erection of flying centres and seaplane stations. The records of 36,817 flights show that they resulted in twelve fatalities and 115 machines being damaged. ••
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16485, 26 February 1914, Page 8
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103AIRCRAFT. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16485, 26 February 1914, Page 8
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