Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
PORTE ANNOUNCES
PLAN FOR FLIGHT
ACROSS ATLANTIC
RY l-IEur m

By LIEUT.. JOHN c. PORTE. r. N.
Copyright, 1914. by Press Publishing COD
Hammondsport. N. Y, June 49,
While many baseless guesses have been
made as to the route l purpose follow
ing in the Wanamaker transatlantic
Hight. 1T is only now that I am ready
to. make any definite announcement on
this point. l have given the matter
much thought and sought to reach a
conclusion that would satisfy first of
all the requirement OF p~racticability. l
think the one adopted meets tha test.
shall make two stops in my trip.
MY first point of call will be the Azores
and my second probably vigo, Spain.
From that point l hope to wing my
way far over the Bay Of Biscay across
and land at Plymouth. AS the New
York World announced, my point of
departure will be ST. Johns. New
Foundland. The mileage thence to the
Azores is LBS: from the Western ISL
ands. as the mariners call them, the
distance of vigo is 96S miles; from
there to the final destination is 523
miles.
Must Make 60 Miles an Hour.
1t is planned to reach the Azores 20
hours after making the water. This
means travelling at the average hourly
rate of 60 miles an hour. 1t will take
16 hours more to get to Vigo and about
'0OAS AbOAS Sila PidS IL
a total of 10 hours were used in stops,
the elapsed time on the trip would take
55 hours, being almost three-quarters
of a day within the time set down by
the terms of The Daily Ma prize offer.
The question naturally asked by
am not flying directly from New
Foundland to Ireland. There are sew
eral reasons and each of them is inn
portant. 1t will be recalled hat the
World said that a radical change in
plans had been decided upon with ref
erence to this point.
First of all l determined that the
most efficient type of machine to use
in the effort to do what has never been
done before, in a flying boat with such
a construction. l could. if necessary.
light on the water n then resume my
fight. With a simple aeroplane, If I
once came down or the water I would
be through. for l could not rise again.
That having been settled, I was con-
fronted with the seemingly %insuper-
able difficulty pointed out by many
noted experts Of being unable to carry
with its great extra weight going
through the whole distance between
North America the British Isles.
Must Replenish Fuel Supply.
To r%eplenish my gasoline I hit upon
the Azores as a coaling station. as hat
point pulls me pretty well TO the South.
I concluded that it would be the part
Of wisdom to resupply at a convenient
European point and so selected Vigo
Bay for that purpose. At each of the
stations I will have assistants ready
with petrol and other necessities. I
shall alight on the water and restock
from boats. I interpret the terms of
the offer t. forbid my going ashore.
so I will not set foot on land. I hope.
from the moment l leave st. Johns until
I step out Of my machine at Plymouth.
There are other important considera-
ton which affected my judgement. BY
taking the southern route I shall es-
cape the fog area in about six hours.
On the direct route between New
Foundland and the Irish coast I might
be in q fog belt for the whole flight.
The variations Of the compass is
greater ON the northern route than on
the southern and the matter of navi-
cation OF the craft Is one OF the big