TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10631, 29 November 1912, Page 1

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

BRITAIN TO NEW YORK. GRAHAME WHITE'S SCHEME. United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 28. Mr Grahame White proposes to make a thirty hours flight from Britain to New York in a hydro-aeroplane, which will have four engines, each of 250 horse-power, and will carry two pilots, two mechanics and two passengers. Mr Grahame White, the well-known English airman, who intends to take on the risky contract of flying across the Atlantic, has completed the plan of the machine in which ho will make the flight states a cable message to the Sydney " Sun." He has already begun to build the engines, of which there w'll be four, and which will be independent of one another. The engines will total 1000 horse-power, and will drive six propellers. Mr White proposes to fly across to Newfoundland. He expects that the journey will occupy from twenty to thirty hours. The machine he is building Avill be capable, of remaining in the air for thirty hours.