ATLANTIC FLIGHT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10283, 19 May 1919, Page 5

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

AMERICAN ’PLANES START NO. 1 REACHES THE AZORES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 18, 5.5 p.m.) ST. JOHNE (N.F.), May 16. The United States aeroplanes Nos. 1 and 4 have started on the flight over the Atlantic. (Received May IS, 5.5 p.m.) HOPvTA (Azores), May 17. The United States transatlantic ilyei No. 4 aeroplane arrived at 9.30 a.m. from Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland. The time was fourteen hours thirteen minutes for twelve hundred miles. Three machines started. TWO SEAPLANES LOST IN A ■ FOG. (Received May IS, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 17. The United States seaplane_ No. 4 has arrived at tho Azores. fehe left Trepassey Bay at 11 o’clock on Friday evening, the actual flying time being thirteen hours fifteen minutes, and the speed one hundred miles hourly. She is expecting to resume her next ■stage to-night, arriving at, Lisbon on Suhdav morning. The crew will rest at Lisbon for ferry-eight hours and arrive at Plymouth on Tuesday. , Seaplanes No. 1 and 3, which were accompanying No. 4, have nor arrived at the Azores. No. 1 sent out S.O.S. calls at 3 o'clock in tho afternoon, and is believed to have got lost in a fog and compelled to descend on the water. Four destroyers are searching. (Received May 18, 11.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 17.

The “Evening Sun's” Horta correspondent says the other two United States seaplanes are reported to he lost in a fog off the Azores, hut are expected to pick up their course and arrive shortly. The course of their flight is being patrolled by United States warships and other warships stationed at intervals of fifty miles, received hourly wireless messages from the seaplanes. Another report states that No. 1 alighted at sea two hundred miles south of Fayal. A MISSING SEAPLANE. DESCENDS TO SEA OFF CHATHAM (Received May 18, 5.5 p.ni.) NEW YOR/E, May 9. The missing naval seaplane developed engine trouble and descended into the sea off Chatham.. The crew were rescued after* spending a night on the calm sea. 'The seaplane was towed into Chatham. RESCUE OF SEAPLANE No. 1. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 19, 12.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 17. ■ The Navy Department announces that the steSSiship lona rescued the crew of seaplane No. 1 fifty-five miles south-east of Corvo Island. RAYNHAM AND HAWKER PREPARING TO START. ST. JOHN’S, May 17. Raynham and Hawker are preparing to start. -■ -

NEW YORK, May "9:

The ' “New York Times” correspondent at St. John’s Hawker and E.aynham showed great interest in the report of the arrival of two American seaplanes at Halifax, after the first stage of the transatlantic flight. The arrival of the Americans will not weaken the determination of the British airmen to await the best weather conditions before they attempt the flight to England.