“TOO RISKY”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 7

“TOO RISKY”

AEROPLANES OVER ATLANTIC FLYERS AGREE Within 10 years, regular Transatlantic aviation will be inevitable, but to-day it is not feasible. You must first overcome many difficulties and devote millions to further experiments,” said Lindbergh, addressing old friends of the Air Force last night. “Because we have flown across the - Atlantic, ’some folks expect the regular service- to start next week, but ■ they never made a greater mistake, i I’m not at all sure about- the feasibility ■ of anchoring half-way stations between Newfoundland and Ireland,” he added. “One might make a lucky jump in good weather to-day, hut next week would meet the fate of Nungesser. It is a precarious business.- I think I could probably do it again, but 1 haven’t any intention of trying.” j “AIRSHIPS BEST” ' LONDON, June 14. “I am- confident that within a very short time ’we will think no more . of flying regularly to New York than 'of the present'regular services to the Continent,” says Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, consulting engineer to the Instone Air Line, who, with Sir John Alcock, flew from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919, in an article in the Weekly Dispat-ch. “I doubt whether aeroplanes will be very successful owing to the risk of engine trouble bringing them down, and the necessity for the pilots flying without sleep for 36 hours, as a relief pilot would mean more petrol, whereby the commedcial basis of the service . would be rendered more difficult or the | margin of safety reduced. “I believe that airships covering the ' distance in 60 hours are more likely , to provide an early regular service.”