Aviation.
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
London, March 19
Captain Hawker’s Sopwith biplane for the trans-Atlantic flight is fitted with a 375 horse power engine, capable of travelling economically one hundred miles an hour. _ A wireless operator accompanies the pilot. The fusilage is constructed in the shape of a lifeboat and the machine is supplied with a scientific tuckbox containing two days’ food in tabloids. It is estimated that the journey will occupy nineteen hours,
(Received 21, 9.20 a.m.) St. Johns (N. Eland), March 19. Air experts and meteorological officials have arrived to observe weather conditions for the transAtlantic flight.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 82, 21 March 1919, Page 5
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