New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Aviation Gives New
Importance to
Island


this garden spot of the Atlantic,
with it's mild climate and other
health giving qualities, will become
the stopover for all overseas travel
by airplane and dirigible. They
point out that the exploit of the
United States navy. in effecting a
crossing has virtually put the islands
on the map, as far as the general
public is concerned; that for many
years problems of construction will
limit the overseas route to the
Azores, where fuel and other sup
S plies may be replenished.
Inventors Of the flying boats are
emphatic in their statements that
not for many years will this kind
Of craft be able to make nonstop
fight with passengers and baggage
the entire 1000 miles, or slightly
less, between Ireland and New
foundland. They place their fingers
on three important air lines uniting
the new world with the old.
One is that taken by the navy in
its epochal flight from Newfound-
land to the Azores, thence to Lis
bon, Portugal. Roughly, the Azores
are 200 miles from Newfoundland
and 800 miles from Portugal.
Another is the nonstop route
between Newfoundland and Ireland,
an approximate distance of 1000
miles between nearest coast lines
and appropriate in every way for
the international mail service.
And the other is the New York,
Azores and Plymouth, England, line,
by far the most important Of all,
50 far as the travelling public is con-
cerned, because each terminal pro-
vides transit and communication
facilities, while the islands them
selves constitute a junction where
by passengers may transfer for any
Of the Atlantic Coast countries on
the continent. Here also will be
found service and repair stations.
Wind drift will be overcome with
the gradual perfection of the wire
less direction finder, by which the
pilot and navigator may commune
cate with ships and land stations
and determine the exact course
g they are pursuing, at the same time
learning their location and the num-
Der Of degrees they have drifted.
Weather conditions can be met with
adequate reports, and the govern
ments of the United States,
Portugal and Great Britain are CO.
operating in providing correct
meteorological data.
One Of the larger manufacturers
OF aircraft in the United States is
interested in a corporation to pro-
mote transatlantic travel by air.
plane. The idea is to establish
scows or barges at various points in
mld-ocean whereby plane requir-
ing fuel could alight and secure it's
supply. The only handicap would
be the weather; the most dangerous
proceeding would be to establish a
supply barge and then have 1t
swept away by storm, to go drift
ing helplessly in the course of fast
hners and prove deadly menace
to all ocean traffic.
And right here Us where the
Azores fit into the scheme with a
nicely that is nothing if not provi.
Dental.
Rising to a height Of more than
f'o00 feet-as in the case of Pico-
and at the lowest $50 feet above sea
'sVel, as On the island of Corvo, the
"sands form an oasis in desert Of
sa'er and mist and heavy banks OF
s'ouds-clouds that rise off the
water In the morning and blot out
everything from view, narrowing
Vie horizon to few feet for the
anxious aerial pilot and his navi
gator.
Already nayigators are at work
W instruments to eliminate these
."hsofties. They count on the
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