TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
rTi_-*-".Bydn*y "9nn" Bpe_i_l C____) (Received February 16th, 6.55 p.m.) LONDON, February 16. Lieutenant Porte haa left for Now York. He is confident of completing the Trans-Atlantic return trip in a new Glen Curtis aeroplane for the "Daily Mail" prize of £10,000.
Ho declared that apart from engine trouble, his greatest concern was navi-
gation, hut a naval officer's invention, enabling eights to be taken at any altitude, would probably solve the culty.
Ho expects to cross in twenty hours, if he avoids dirty weather. Once aloft ho says ho can boat any storm. Ho will always be near the steamer track, but if he drops into the ocean, he does not expect to be able to re-ascend.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14903, 17 February 1914, Page 7
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