AVIATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14219, 17 February 1914, Page 5

AVIATION.

THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT,

LIEUT. PORTE'S ANTICIPATIONS

(Times-Sydney Sun Special Service.) (By Telegraph.) LONDON, February 16. Lieutenant Porte has departed for Now Aork. He is confident of completing the trans-Atlantic flight. Ho will return iu a new Glen Curtis aeroplane for the Daily Mail prize of .£IO.OOO. He declared that, apart from engine troubles, the greatest concern was navigation, but a naval officers' invent ion, enabling an aviator to take a sight at' any altitude, would probably kjlvc the difficulty. He expects to cross the Atlantic in 20 hours, avoiding "dirty weather. He will always be near the steamer track. If he drops into the ocean, he does not expect to be able to reascend.

' A WONDERFUL HYDROPLANE. PARIS, February IG, Collier, the inventor, successfully flew a 200 h.p. hydroplane, carrying three passengers, and lifting 4j- tons.