ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 March 1928, Page 5

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

FRENCH PROPOSE Aik SERVICE. SERIES OF FLOATING ISLANDS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PARIS, March 23. A 40,000,000 dollars company has been, formed in America to organise a trams-Atlantic air service, says the airman Rene Fanck, who has returned l from the United States. It is proposed that there will be a series of floating islands every 325 miles across the-Atlantic, one of which will be completed shortly and will be moored 200 miles from New York. ATTEMPT FROM THE WEST. UNWISE AT PRESENT, STATED AIR MINISTER. / LONDON, March 23. ‘‘ I consider it most unwise to attempt to fly. the Atlantic from east to west until we have machines.ef greater endurance,” declared Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister, in a speech at Birmingham. “I do not desire to criticise the brilliant pilot Captain Hineheliffe and his courageous companion, but to warn others that, the risks at present are too great. “At- the same time it would be unwise as well as impracticable for the Government to interfere with the individual’s right to embark on such an adventure. Public opinion is rightly jealous of any attempt to curtail the spirit of enterprise and adventure.”