AVIATION.
TRANS-ATLANTIC RACE.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] lUNITED PkKH« Aflf»iOt*TK>N 1
London, February 5
The attempt to cross the Atlantic to Newfoundland for the Daily Mail prize will probably be made in August or September. A vvaterplane will be constructed for Curtiss on the flyingboat prinicple. Lieutenant Porte, the British naval-officer, is one of the pilots, the second, an American' has not yet been chosen. The machine weighs a ton, and carries four bundled gallons of petrol and is fitted with wireless. Lodman "Wanamaker, an American, is financing the scheme. HAWKER AFTER THE RECORD. Melbourne, February 0. Hawker says he does not think the altitude record is official, and adds: "If so, 1 will send it 2000 ft, higher."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1914, Page 5
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118AVIATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1914, Page 5
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