ATLANTIC FLIGHT
SERIES OF FRENCH VENTURES PLANNED. FIVE PILOTS GETTING READY. VARIOUS MACHINES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)' (Received Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.) PARIS, April 3. Five French westward transAtlantic flights are being planned. Bleriot has designed a giant fourengined, eight-ton, six-passenger machine, piloted by Boussotrot to fly via the Azores. If successful, he will establish a regular service. Others flying are Costes and Lebrix in a Brequet biplane; Captain Gilbaud, in a Latham hydroplane, via the Azores; Sergt. de Troyat, in an all-metal ’plane; and lastly, Levine’s ex-pilot, Drouhin, in a longwinged Rainbow. — (Australian Press Association.)
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Wairarapa Age, 5 April 1928, Page 5
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