Aerial Navigation

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5

Aerial Navigation

TRAXS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. AX EXTENDING COMPETITOR. will cross ix 20 hour*. Kmes—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received l(i, 5.50 p.m. Xew York, February l(i. Lieutenant Porte has departed frni.i Xew York. He is confident of complying a trans-Atlantic return journey in his new (lien Curtis aeroplane for tie Daily Mail prize of £IO,OOO. He declared that apart from the engine the trouble giving him the greatest concern I was navigation, but a naval officer's I invention, enabling one to take a sight from any altitude, would probably solve the difficulty. He expects to cross in 24 hours, avoiding dirty weather. Whe.i once aloft he feels he can beat any stonn, and he will always be near the steamer track. If he should drop int) the ocean he does not expect to be j able to re-ascend. TROUBLE AMONGST AVIATORS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, February 15. Vedrines, tlie aviator, has returned and challenged M. Quinton, president of the French Aerial League, to a duel with service revolvers at ten paces. He declares that after the incident when the Aerial League ordered him to accept a chaUenge from 31. Roux, on_e of the,m must be wiped out; meanwhile he announced his candidature for the part, PASSENGER HYDROPLANE. Received 10, 0.15 p.m. Paris, February IG. Collier, an inventor, successfully flew in a 200-h.p. hydroplane, carrying three passengers, and lifting four and a-hftlf tons.