AVIATION.
TRANS-ATLANTIC- FLIGHT. (Received Last Niglil, 10.40 o'clock.) NEW YORK, February 25. Lieutenant Porte, of the British Naval Flyiiig Corps, is willing to pilot the trans-Atlantic aeroplane. Mr J. Manamaker is financing the flight.
FLYING IN GERMANY
WORK OF 1913. (Received Last Ni'iht, 10.55 o'clock.) BERLIN,. February 25. The German National Flying.Fund during the year 1913 received £361,725-, and expended £107,975 in prizes, £87,613 in training pilots, £38,905 in insuring pilots, and £24,000 in tho erection of flying centres and seaplane stations. There were 36,817 flights made, resulting in twelve fatalities, while 115 machines were damaged. i
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 February 1914, Page 5
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