Show I no R r J Other Points of View S IDl's AND XU I for flight Ight a. a Capr CapronI nl to furnish The proposal of or SIgnor Signer Atlantic not only one of or hi his powerful al airplanes planes the the tho Aero Acro Club ot of of ut ha has the approval hut but a pilot and n crew bo constructor Italian Hallan that the which suggests BU America officially Invited h to engage In the enterprise As 5 nn an HalIan ItalIan Italian Ital Hal ian navigator discovered cred America making nH the first pa passage pas pas- sage hahe of oC tho the Atlantic In a. a caravel wh why should not an italIan Ital Italian Hal ital- ian be bo the tho first to fl fly over ovir tho the Atlantic lIo How approprIate it t would be for tor CapronI to go o down to as the Columbus of the air If It the voa voyage e through posterity the upper spaces i Is practicable the modern HalIan Hal Hal- Ll Ian lan whose whoso big machines New York has s seen en rushing at itt twice railway spec speed above abo Its streets would woul covet H tho distinction ol ot taking command of or the first airship to cros cross the Atlantic 4 sentiment seems to require that the start be made from Spain not front from rom Newfoundland Why h not the lie port of or Pales Palos which was the point of or departure for Columbua The Tile route roulo of ot the discoverer of or the New ew World Ol might ml be followed as ns closel closely as conditions permitted The 1 ha Canary Islands where herc Columbus made a n. sta at stay belore launchIng launch launch- Ing Inh westward Into Inlo the unknown are arc about Too miles southwest of oC Cadiz From the Canary Canal Islands to Cuba isa is isa a a. longer cr distance than the Azores from Newfoundland New V a a. third greater The Clr first t descent cent In America Amerle would have ha to be lie made In iii one of oC the er West est Indian Islands and Cuba which Columbus took for or C pan u was i the second Island In time the New I World on which he set apt foot root i Columbu was six eighty I ht days tJ reaching Cuba f from i om Palos Signor bIgnor I nor Caproni with good luck would sight Cuba Culm In itt half as man many hours If It he lie had hart faith raith In one of or his huge machines specially constructed construct for Cor the thc venture tho tile aeronautical aeronautical aero aero- nautical authorities certainly the Lime gan sanguine spirits o of oC the Aero ero Club of oC America would be he confident of or his success They The speak of oC the cros crossing of or the Atlantic as a s scientific certainty to them It docs not appear to be he a A. sporting chance at all To most of oC us It does doos At an any rate there would be hazards If It tile the a attempt I Is to b be made matJe Joc local 1 should magnanimously give gl wa way to historic sentiment Moreover SI Signor Signer CapronI has eloped developed an extraordinarily powerful po airplane and he could coul Improve upon It for Cor the thc Interest In th the thc great adventure There would be he Intense flight qC an Italian Hallan through the skies from Crom the coast of or orI Spain to America Wh Why should hould not nol the names mimes of or Columbus an and CapronI be linked together In iii glory New glory New ew York Times Time |