Republican farmer., 1919-05-16
NC3 Experienced Engine Trouble and Returned Ali
 ter Cruising 50 Miles.
REPAIRS MADE LEFT
 AGAIN AT 12:35
fNc1 Making Fine Flight Going at Speed of 19O
 Miles in 135 Minutes.

Halifax, May 1.-Two or the three giant American naval hydro-airplaneS commissioned to attempt transatlantic flight, the NC-1 and the NC-3, took the air today on the sec ond leg of their cruise from Rockaway Beach, N. Y., to Ire passey, N. F., where they are expected to start next week for Portugal with a stop at the Azores.
 The NC-t. under command of Lieu tenant Commander IF. N. L. Bellinger. set out for sea at s:44 a. m, followed nt 9:oT o'clock by the SC-2, carrying Commander John Towers, chief of the expedition.
 The start was made under an all most cloudless sky. with a gentle northerly wind cutting across the course, which lay slightly north of east.
 The NC-3 flagship of the expedition and originally the leader in the flying broke a propeller while her engine was being warmed up in a surface cruise around the Baltimore before the start. Installation of the new propeller required moro than 45 min utes. Meanwhile the NC-1 was cruis- ing along the waters of the bay.
 When repairs to his machine had been completed. Commander Towers from the deck of the Baltimore, sig nailed the NC-1 to get under way. Commander Bellinger at once proceeded for the mouth O. the harbor. his plane taking the air op- posite the Baltimore and disappear 1nR from view as 1t turned eastward p mile or more from shore.
 The NC 8. her now propeller work ing perfectly, got away 23 minutes after her sister plane.
 The aviators were all in high spirits and confident of success. not only in the cruise to Newfoundland. but also in the flight across the Att lantic and thence over European coastal waters. to Plymouth, England.
 The American naval plane, NC 3, forced by propeller trouble to return here after cruising 50 miles on the flight to Trepassey, N. F.. made fresh start at 12:s5 p. m.
 Austria Lake, N. S., May 10 - Tho leading American naval plane. flying at great height passed this town, 30 Illies rom fidIlid& dl S.oV d. H.
 Ship Harbor. rS. S.. May 10-Speed- 'ing more than a mile minute the first of the American hydro-air- planes passed this harbor. 50 miles from Halifax. at e:40 a. m. The sec ond plane was not seen.
 Liscombe. N. S.. May 10 The American naval plane NC-1. flying low. passed this town, 100 miles east of Halifax. at 10:O2 a. m. The NC-9 was not in sight
 Canso Bay, N. E.. May 10 - The American naval airplane NC-1 passed this point at 1o:55 a. m.. having flown J20 miles in '10s minutes.
 Louisburg. N. S., May 1o.---Ameri- ran naval airplane NC-1, having flown 79o miles in 1s5 minutes. passed this town at II 40 a. m.
 From this point the flight plans called for a direct cruise across the open Atlantic to Trepassey Bay. on the southeastern tip of Newfound- land. slightly more than 300 miles.
 Chatham. Mass. May 1o.---The ma val seaplane NC-4 was expected to resume her flight to Halifax before noon today if the weather conditions continued favorable. The damaged Jnotore which forced the machine to put in here on her way from Rock away Beach to Halifax with the NC-1 and NC-3 had been replaced.
 Conditions were less favorable at noon. and while Commander Read still planned to make a trial hop" later he was in doubt as to the advisa- bflity of attempting the long flight to Halifax. Reports on the progress of the Wei on her trip from Halifax to foundland were received here at frequent intervals.
 As the trial flight was delayed some hours beyond the time for which it was first set, officers at the air station said there was little prob ability that the start for Halifax po,,td 1,e nnade today b,t that tba