Show Us 11 S OWES BLAZES 91 AIR TRAIL ACROSS SEA AMERICAN AVIATOR THE FIRST TO ACTUALLY CROSS ATLANTIC IN SEAPLANE over ocean journey to portugal Is completed when lieutenant commander reed pilots airship into harbor at lisbon washington blazing the way for the first air trail from the western wester mn to the eastern hemisphere the united states navy seaplane NC 1 under lieutenant commander albert dishing cushing reed swept into the harbor at lisbon portugal may 27 the first airship of any kind to have crossed the atlantic ocean under its own power and through its natural element clement taking the air at ponta delgada azores at a m washington gron time on the last leg of the transoceanic portion of the voyage from rockaway beach long island to plymouth england le land the NC t covered the SOO miles 1 in 9 0 hours and 43 minutes maintaining an average speed of better than eighty knots the alie total elapsed flying time from new Found land to lisbon was 20 26 hours and 41 minutes at the first opportunity the big plane will continue to plymouth nautical miles to the north the great object of all the effort lavis lavished lied on the undertaking navigation of a seaplane across the atlantic through the air has been accomplished pils shed bed Tent twentieth leth century transportation has reached a new pinnacle macle and the united states navy has led the way vay naval officials emphasized that the long delay at the azores was due to the weather and to no weakness of the machine or its daring crew nor to any failure of the carefully laid plans of the department to guide the fliers to their destination the 14 destroyers strung from ponta delgada to lisbon reported with machinelike precision as the flight progressed the plane was never off its course and there was no moment when ullen officials in washington did not know to within a few miles villere here it was in the al air secretary daniels said he had not decided whether the NC 4 should attempt to fly back to the united states slates or be knocked down at plymouth and shipped back to america |