ATLANTIC CROSSED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 16 June 1919, Page 5

ATLANTIC CROSSED

BRSTISH AEROPLANE REACHES IRELAND.

AMERICAN AVIATOR'S PROPHECY

CHAIN OF LIGHTSHOPS

BY CAULE—JPEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT

ST. JOHN'S, June 14

A Viekers.Viniy aeroplane, with pilot Alcock and navigator A. W. Brown left Newfoundland at 4.13 p.m., Green! wich time, or 12.5 ,p.m. York time,, bound on a trans-Atlantic flight to England.

LONDON, June 15. A wireless message from Clifton, Irelansd, states that the Vickers-Vimy machine alighted in. Ireland at 9,40 a.m, . NEW YORK, June 8 (delayed). The New York Times' St. John's correspondent states that the under-cax-riage of the Sopwith machine, dropped by Hawker upon leaving Newfoundland, has been landed by the schooner which found it off the Grand Banks.

LONDON, June 7 (delayed). Interviewed, Tower, the commander of the United States trans-Atlantic on NC4, said: "I predict that within five years there will be a chaia <rf interna. tional lightships, each being a meteorological station, which will patrol the ocean along the trans_oeean air route. This will mean a. large initial expenditure, hut will be worth while, as lightships will be able to aid vessels as well .as airships. Such a patrol would put trans-Atlantic flying on a substantial 'basis. The first chain could be established "via the Azores, since that is the best flying route, but a chain between Newfoundland and Ireland is also practicable. A lightship ■every 500 milee would T>e necessary.