TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT.
U.S, NAVY PROJECT. Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 20, 9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 19. The United States Navy is constructing a huge seaplane to attempt a transpacific flight in tho late summer or early spring. The machine is a triplane with a wing spread of 167 feet. It is driven by nine 400-horse-power ; motors, and has a lifting capacity of 30,000 pounds- The machine requires a crew of twelve. The tentative route of the proposed flight is Santiago, ,Honolulu, Wake Island, Guam, Manila.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16405, 20 April 1921, Page 7
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