New Britain herald., 1929-08-01

New York, experts now agree that
 he has contributed more to the
 knowledge of Atlantic air travel than any other man who has succeeded
 or failed.
 T am convinced, he says, that flying westward is ten times harder than flying from New York to Paris. ' Costes is an airman of recognized ability and undoubted courage
 Others with equal courage started out as he did, met the conditions he did and tried to overcome them They have never been heard from since. Costes found himself UT against conditions that he was not
 prepared for, so he came back and is alive to work on the solution oi
 his problem.
 We must know more: we must
 learn more and we must make further progress in aircraft develop
 ment before we can hope to fly from
 Paris to New York with any reason able chance of success" he said
 Flying eastward and flying west ward are two entirely different propositions Flying this way an aviator may meet storms. as Lind
 bergh did but they are very likely to be helpful from the point of view of progress. Flying westward. any
 miscalculation is liable 10 spell dis aster."
 Costes claims he was foilcd by in- | formation he was given on weather conditions. Predictions were all wrong and instead of finding favora- 1 ble weather he quickly ran into vio-
 lent storms and contrary winds that
 made any attempt to reach the
 North American continent physically impossible.
 And what Costes said about weather predictions has been con | firmed by General Delcambre. chiei
 of the French official weather
 bureau.
 At present my department has
 neither the money nor the equip
 ment to give reliable reports except
 along the coast and to some extent
 as far as the Azores" General Del
 cambre said. At present the trans
 portation of passengers from Europe
 to America over this route. where
 so many gallant aviators have al
 ready met death. would be a foolish
 and criminal enterprise.
 An international organization
 having a capital of at least one mil.
 lion dollars is needed before it vii
 be possible to give out adequate at,
 mospheric reports over the entire
 Atlantic to fliers. Although we organize the best service possible
 under present conditions, the means
 are pitifully inadequate and if we report conditions perfect when there
 are terrific storms in the middle oi the Atlantic it is because we do not possess divine powers
 Tn order to guarantee accurate
 weather reports over the entire
 ocean it would he necessary to form an international organization with | floating islands. numerous ships and dozens of coast stations. It will also be necessary to perfect the Azores station. But all this will require ar
 enormous investment and an inter-
 national company which would sel the service at set prices.
 Everything has to be paid fol nowadays" he continued. No steam.
 CT is going to send wireless weather reports without remuneration We ask for such reports for our flers but we do not always receive them General Delcambre reported tha during the war France had 2,00t men observing the sky over a space
 of 500 miles. but today is forced tc depend on 500 men 10 tell the weath.
 CT conditions of the entire world. A; far as the Atlantic is concerned, h. stated that he had one boat and sev- eral coast stations on which he was forced to rely to advise Atlantic fliers.
 Costes is now convinced that his old friends, Nungesser and Coli, whc took off with local weather condi- tions similar to those he flew under ran into the same series of gales and hail storms, that their g"solinc ''''-
 out in the teeth of a fierce head wind, and that they plunged into lut sea far from any possibility of help
 For long time it has been my
 ambition to fly from Paris to New