IN THE AIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

THE AMERICAN ATTEMPT. MSBON REACHED. Ponta del Garda (Azores), May 27, It is stationed that sixty destroyers are stationed en route to Lisbon in tho event of an accident to NCI . Washington, May 27. The NO4 is half-way to Lisbon. London, May 27. The American seaplane NC4 started from Ponta del Garda, Azores, for Lisbon this morning. New York, May 27. Reports from Ponta del Garda state that -TC4 is within 100 miles of Lisbon. Received May 28, 9.30 p.m. Washington, May 27. It is officially announced that the United States seaplane No- 4 left Ponta del Garda, Azores, at fi.lS a.m. and arrived in Lisbon at 4.2 p.m., Washington time.

. DIRIGIBLE FLIGHTS. FROM BRITAIN TO AMERICA. New York, May 18. The Atlantic City correspondent of the New York Times states that the War Department has notified the officials of the Pan-German Aeronautic Congress that the British Government has been invited to conduct dirigible flights from Britain to the United States. An authentic report hns been received saving that the British Government is speeding up plans to start a. dirigible on her trans-Atlantic flight to the United States. The start might be made in a few days. An American dirigible whijV broke loose from her moorings at St. John's and drifted seawards, has been recovered by a British steamer. The third of the American seaplanes has arrived at Trepassy, Newfoundland, from Halifax. FROM' ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. PARTY TO START ON MONDAY.

Received May 29, 1.30 a.m. London, May 27. Lieuts. Kingsford Smith, Val Rendle, Cyril Maddocks, Australians, flying a Blackburn Kangaioo aeroplane, fitted with two Rolls Royce engines, intend to start on Monday in the prize flight to Australia, via Turin, Brindisi. Alexandria, India and Borneo. The journey will be divided into twelve sections. The machine's capacity is twelve hundred miles.