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Show Mm Fifsa FMJBTEO Experiments Made to Determine De-termine Number of Horsepower Horse-power for Each Plane. "VASHI.VGTOX. Arril 3. Fx; erinients are u:ni--r wa v at l ii- in va I a r : a t u :i at lb ckawav lit aeh. i.. i.. to .1. t e: i ,u ;e til" iiumber -f I.:l.-r:v m.-t.-r.s which v. nl drive Xmf n:vv .Mujiiiri".; nu i!:..- pr--pesed IhKht across the At.:uit'C o.a.in ne:;t ni'jn'h. Tii" thr-.-1 N. '. 'o p" p'.ai. s now ia ennmiissa.n w re dt sit;:., d lr three enciii'-s. hut off :re;-; m r!tari;e of ort-tiarat ns Jor tiie ihtat btdiev- it will I l iM'Srf.bk lo add a Jourth niot'T, u.v-inir u.v-inir eacfi plane I'-.t h'ir.-.- p . - r. F.ur motors wiil be carried )y iiie N ' " -4 n-w hems completed at Garden ht', Ij. .. and most oi'fu-'"? favor th.e uc of this number n tiie li.ht. It was indicLLtci today that the mini -her of machines to ha e Newfoundland would d..-iM-nd up..n whether any fl iiu-.m in eom mission were smashed during t iie Pivlinimarv tests or an trip from Kuekawav to the "j u:iipii.- f f " p:aee. From i Iks it was in i erred tiiat It whs planned to 'rtart thrie and, possibly, four,, "f t he N. ( '. t no cr.ii t .- Naval officials here are watching with keen inter, -st the ' preparations beim; made bv G. Hawker and l.ieutenant-Cijnimandor l.ieutenant-Cijnimandor Mackenzie Grieve for tlvir protracted fhcht from N-v.i.'ui:d:fl-.,d to 1 Ir.dand in a Soiiwith airplane, and they were not surprised bv i be news that it had btfii found neeessary to delay the j start bevond April l', the first day set. 1 Th s machine still may he the first m . undertake the trans at lan tie voyaue. as i there is no evidence t hat the navy do- ' Part merit intends to hasten the start of I its flight. |