Conquering the Air

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 7 February 1914, Page 5

Conquering the Air

! THE ATLANTIC RACE. PRE LI MINARY ARK ANi !E M KXXS By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 0, 10.050 |uu London, February 5. The attempt to cross the Atlantic to Newfoundland for the Daily Mail prize will probably be made in August or September. A waterplane will lie constructed for Curti.-s on the principle. Lieutenant Porte, the British naval olliccr is one of the pilots, the second, an American has not vet been chosen. The machine weighs a .ton, and carries lour hundred gallons of, petrol and is fitted with wireless. Lodman Wanannker. an American, is financing 'the scheme'

HAWKER WILL BREAK RECORD. Received 0, 11.26 n.m. Melbourne, February 0. Hawker says he does not think the altitude record is official, and adds. "If so, I will send it 2000 ft 'highi-r." THE FIRST UNIT. ROUND THE WORLD. •Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, February 5. A second gift of £IOOO has been' made by the,-Shell motor firm to the Imperiil Air Fleet Committee's fund of £10,01)11 to enable them to provide the Jirsi, units of the overseas Dominions' defence. The Paris correspondent of The Times states that French airmen are inclined to think the "round the world" air race, proposed in connection with the Panama Exhibition, an impossibility. Man is as yet incapable of flying live hundred kilometres daily for '"three months. Raynham broke the British altitude record at Brooklands, reaching a hei«ht of 13.000 feet.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. PROPOSED FOR v XEXT SUMMER. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received (i, 0 p.m. London, February 5. A Trans-Atlantic aeroplane flight from Newfoundland to Ireland is promised in the summer. A specially-constructed (lying boat is expected to take 15 hours flying at an altitude of 10.000 feel.