Across the Seas

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5535, 17 February 1914, Page 3

Across the Seas

A CONFIDENT AIRMAN

Received 6.55 p.m., Kith. London, February 16

A young naval officer, Lieutenant Porte, has departed for New York confident of returning across the Atlantic on a New Glen Curtis aeroplane in the competition for the Daily Mail prize of £IO,OOO. He declared yesterday that apart from engine trouble, the greatest concern of those who make the attempt will be on the score of navigation, but that he has obtaineda naval officer's invention enabling him to take sights at any altitude, and that this will probably solve the difficuty. The daring aviator expects to cross the ocean in 20 hours, avoiding dirty weather. Once aloft, he maintains that he will beat any storm, and will always be near the steamer track if he-drops into the ocean.