Evening star., 1914-02-08
FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN
CLASSED AS PROBABLE
Aviation Experts Not So Sure About
Round-the- World
Competition
oGer Made of $4,000 as Prize for
First Crossing of Atlantic
in Aeroplane-

in Aeroplane.
Training lights are being continued
Hy the .tv,ators AT the armys winter
..tup ~ San Diego. t'aL The junior
.s'iicerS. vino aro d"tu- th.. active living
ttvc put f1 CONS clrr.als time in th.. air
Fer jJ.-ts,1;ce. iIt ttee ;irSt twenty four
days "j J.,nls,trH there were ~; flights
s.rte' sud / D. I.sts.4.r rcers carried with Il
t'js 1rlne ir tuc agy or seventy seven
sto.--s .sRd hfiy-tvo minutes This in
tNlded tllr,r~ creSs-coultry flights of ~
r.t. a7a 20 miles each
OF the wetk ending January - there
perc fln flights With q total of more
Than tpouty-tivc hours III the air Tie
=. tatorS ar pract'ciuS passenger carry
3rc which helps to train them AMI ox-
t.4dS tire experience of aviation and the
enthusiasm among the passengers carried
Tn,.r, were tortN-tjvc passengers taken
nj during the week.
Work IS beins pushed as much as
possible OH thu naval training station
sF roFiSacoia. Via
Feature Stories Afloat.
Two near-seusat o',S IN tbo past week
t.sv.' -a'1sed ~ good deal of r"mment
:,a5oa.S those uufaniliar With aviation
t'fe Is tuc proposed rae, around tn.
world, ie=tStesi hs thc aeronautic divt-
s."u "f the Panama Pacific exposition
ID; Sau francisco and the other is the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that Eod!usrI WanaInak"r
has contracted with tIj'nu urtlSS Tor
;tft- cons -jl,-t ions t,f al -r"piatIe to make
tfu flight s4..ross the Atlantic.
The :~ausa;laiItit. tight IS regarded
by those ju tolch with the subject rs
being III. more liifcly uf accornpliSnTuent
NI-red Harms, uftft I,urd Nurthclittei of
H. London Daily Mail has already
offered S'h'f--' as prize for the first
".,eau crossing, II Speaking OF the mat
ter ore al The members of the advisory
committee cf the ;vrod yuaInlc laboratory
satd.
OF course II Is 9. fore2on" conclusion
tilstt the transatlantic flight will be made
Whether Il Is made 10y Nj. Wanamaker
~ by st,tre ara, elise l~ a question Any
bow. tuc HarJnswartH prize is likely TO
hang tI5t r]H the fl!git i matt. for Lord
No~thci5f.- j. Ia the habit of offering
pstzes that are intended u he Won and
net Offering tgem Tor advertising pur
poses only THIS was tn ease witt the
1,5-thu3ss:t nd pound prize he offered for
fHe FIRST fight Of . eavier-than-air ma
ctriue trom London to Manchester When
tl5,t prize WAS announced the prospect Of
IL feat being performed looked rather
more remote than does the tranSa tlantic
Flt-lt i1ttdN III iFFl ttidl iFtiitltlt-
chester flight might have been made
wear before il was made by Paulhan and
II vas toregone conclusion that 1t
o"uld be Won hy the first aviator who
made serious try for it
Little in Way of over-ocean Trip.
'h~ thu ease stands t.seve Is little to
prevent the transatIan Fight from
being made row in on ordinary machine.
fI..4 fff.4r Mt 4
c'-t via Newfoundland and Iceland. there
i one jy5nIf of $40 miles from Bel Isle
of; Newfoundland. ~ cape Farewell,
Greenland, and another of go miles from
t*pc Farewell to avjavik. Iceland. We
kfow that Roland Garrus with al ordi-
HAY nl0uoplau. crossed the Mediterrt-
n'au from France 10 Africa. covering JI2
Hii1cs in eight hours ON a nonstop flight
certainly Sp"cIai. SeH built machine
could 90 The extra distance with little
trouble
~ understand ttst Glenn t-urtis~ who
IS u good constructor. already has tn.
NslIiaflsiller piat> under consideration
r9t %h-tN a. any tliiug definite in this line
MI be DOVE l have n" means OF knowing
'ff'~ J do Know. that i has oe.u reported
IT. ut. john Towers would be one of two
1ta'v vai officers t. make the flight No re-
etaest has been made uu the Navy De
partnleHt t"r the services of any officer
of course. t9e department could not and
would 40; detail an officer for private
venture "f this sort. He would nave to
volunteer and take d furoush while max
ing th' light. But far there has been
No request made for the services OF Lieut.
Towers or any other naval officer for the
Hight
one thing that has been said in favor
oi making the flight from east TO west
and at 4 nigh altitude is true Prof.
Humphreys Of tl. weather bureau has
t'id me that at an altitude Of 1o'rst feet
tincr" i an almost constant wind of fifty
With machine whose normal speed was
even sixty miles an hour this wouId help
considerably ] would he glat! TO see the
fight even attempted and l am by no
means sure il couldd not b. done on the
INST trial. Whether OF not the Nana-
niak-sr-CUr attempt IS made ! am
,oierabiy confident the flight will be made
b> some one within a year
Regarded as Remote.
Experts say the round-t -the-world race
proposed by the Panama exposition peo-
Pie IS a decidedly more remote possibil-
II Such u flight eventually VIII be
made, nat il would be a long and ex-
peasise Undertaking in the present stage
Of tile a1t. II is true that the late cal
brdith Rogers flew from New York to
1"s Angeles. a distance of 4. 1Jp miles
he Travelled. blt IL took hir:l fi.ty-seven
tiats to make the trip and IL xas report
81 ~ 'he time to have cost him over
$3.50
fiie frst prize offered for the round
fl1@ world Eight is Siooao and those
familiar with the conditions say the first
n,.tu woGld te the only one to make any
thtr- over his expenses. Two second
y iZ+s ot S;;".t-o and $2op" respectively
=re offered, hut unless some of the big
manufacturers enter machines for the
sake q: tls advertising. it is said the
f'~tles W"5.id not bc worth tho expenses
III" "trip would ueceSSitate.
nIo1lINr or nIIIlalIA