ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
SIX ITALIAN SEAPLANES.
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE
(United Press Association—Copyright.) ROME, April 16.
Plans are being advanced for a Rome to New York flight by 12 seaplanes. Thirty pilots are in training for the flight, and of these 12 will be selected. Two cruisers and six destroyers will be stationed between the Azores and New York for rescue if the 'planes are forced down. ' . It is expected that the flight will commence in the autumn.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 159, 17 April 1930, Page 5
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