The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-03
LAW PLANS TOFLY
ACROSS ATLANTIC
Aviator Expects to Make Trip in
Thirty-Six Hours, Including
One Stop in Midocean.
$4,000 PRIZE OFFERED
VIII Leave East Coast OF New
Foundland, Accompanied by
Henry Bingham Brown.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch. ]

New York. April 2.--Rodman Law
plans TO be the first man to fly across
the Atlantic Ocean. lie will leave tho
east coast OF New Foundland in n
Burgess Wright hydroplape. together
with Henry Bingham Brown, in July
next in Il flight to win the $4,000 prize
offered by the London Daily Mail fcr
the tirst heavier than air machine to
fly across the Atlantic. According to
the plans he has already made the
flight Will he made In thirty six hours,
including one stop in midoccan.
Tentative arrangements, he says.
have already been made with the Gu
nard. White Star and Anchor steamship
lines who Will instruct the captains
OF their vessels TO keep q sharp look
out for the aeroplane. No wireless
apparatus Will be carried Everything
will he sacrificed in order that the ma
chine will be light az possible. An
altitude of 1900 feet will be main
tained throughout.
The aeroplane Will be a Burgess
Wright, with pontoon floats and will
he constructed in Marblchead, Mass,
next month. The engine Will be a
specially selected nifty horse power
motor. and will be subjected to rigid
tests before being fitted TO the ma
chine.
The equipment will consist of sixty
To eighteen hours hying--hve pounds
OF condensed food in thermos TASKS
two pairs of night glasses. n compass
and some rockets and coston lights
When complete, with fuel and equip
ment, exclusive OF the aviators, the
machine will only weigh 1900 pounds
Law is confident that the flight will
be successful. lie says that he would
not undertake. It were it not for the
perfect understanding. that exists bo-
tween himself and Brown. They have
made many hazardous Nights together
Two Sets of Controllers.
When the aeropianc leaves New
Foundland each of the two men Will
have Il sot of controllers In front OF
his seat. AS soon as their bearings
have been obtained and the course set,
they will commence regular watches
of five hours each. one man sleeping.
strapped TO his scat, whilo tho other
steers the aGroplane
The first sixty gallons of gasolene
will taiee thom 500 miles IN fifteen
hours continuous flying. Tn the last
hour a sharp loo5iut for a. convenient
liner will he made. and the machine
Will then yolplane down TO position
alongside TO tako OH 4 new supply OF
gasolene. which the shipping com
pnnies will instruct their captains to
have on baord.
a fresh start Will then he made. and
within nftecn hours they expect to
cover the remaining 500 miles TO the
west coast OF ireland, whore after a
brief trest, they Will continue 20 Lon
don. Although only ono stop in mid
ocean hns been planned. every possible
contingency has boon arranged for.
and In the event OF IT being necessary
to make more than one landing the
liners will be ready TO rendor aSsiS-
tance.
The most prevalent winds across
the ocean III July are westerly, and
with the aid OF these favorable winds,
Law hopes to make an average speed
Of sixty miles an hour across the
1900 miles OF sea.
Several British and French aviators
have already entered for the flight,
but oach of them has declared that 1t
would not be possible to make the
night for another two years, and that
the attempt would cost at least St60.-
600 Law says that he can make the
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