NEW SEA FLIGHT RECORD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13717, 26 April 1910, Page 7

NEW SEA FLIGHT RECORD.

(Received April 26th, 12.15 a.m.)

PARIS, April 25.

M. Latham flew over the sea and back for a distance Of fifty-four kilometres, which is a record. His machine afterwards stopped and fell into the sea, . but M.. Latham was rescued unhurt.

M. Decaturs aeroplaned from Chalons to Dijon with a passenger.

The conditions of the corapetition for the "Daily Mail's" prize of £10,000 for a flight from London to Manchester are that the flight shall be accomplisned in twenty-four hours or under, with not more than two stops. Mr A. F. Cody, well-known as an neroplanist, has been preparing for this flight for some tinfe. He was confident 'ast year that he could make the journey, without touching the ground, in under three hours....

Very few people have any idea of what an aeroplane flight from London to Manchester really means {said a writer in the "Daily Mail" last year). When the flight' is accomplished, as -t will undoubtedly be in a very few months, possibly a few weeks, a fact will be established -which all the flights, in aerodromes only go some way in indicating—that the conquest of the iir by heavier-than-air flying machines ha,«been finally achieved.; This flight from London to Manchester is no easy task/ First of all, with the present development of aeroplanes, it could not possibly made in a straight line. Such *n-attempt /would mean failure, inasmuch as the aviator would have to cross hills of an altitude of at least 1600 feet, the/rise to which, after twothirds of the journey had been accomplished, he would find much top rapid to be successfully accomplished. Ther© can be no doubt that the selection of favourable route iyill be an all-import-ant part of the science of flying long distances in the near' future. , In the London td Manchester eonteet, for example, there are various withe to be taken and extraordinary difficulties to be avoided which vwoiildijnean all the difference, between success and failure on an aeroplane which had passed 4 reliability test for the distance under .favourable conditions.

This writer estimates that 'the length of the most favourable route is 185 to 190 miles. ,' -. '