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Show VANT SEAPLANES MAKE SUCCESSFUL i START FOR AZORES '-. (Pv Associated Press.) k TREPASSEY. N. F., May 16. Three rUnt seaplanes of the American navy he NC-3 NC-4 and NC-1 rose late to-i"v to-i"v from the waters of Trepassey bay headed for the Azores in their at- --veTPt to cross the Atlantic by air. Commanded by Commander John H. I Irvte" Lieutenant Commander A. C. ., - ,a( and Lieutenant Commander P. N. f (Ir Bellinger, the planes left their moor- lU n" at the head of Trepassey harbor and 'taxied" toward the narrows. Then, usiiinr in'o a westerly wind, they took he air The NC-3, the "flagship." rose it T"' the NC-4 two minutes later and In he NC-1 at 7:41 (Newfoundland time, L Ifr'ich is one hour and thirty minutes f lliead of New York time). Within a ev minutes they were lost sight of bemud be-mud the eastern horizon. 'jailors Cheer "God-Speed." "' As thev passed from view natives of Newfoundland, who lined the shores of he land-locked bay, vied with Yankee ailors stationed here in sending away pith a rousing cheer the American avia-;ors avia-;ors starting on their epochal voyage. A The seaplanes shaped their course Loward Corvo, westernmost island of the T I zores. from which they expected to fly fo Horta, on the Island of Fayal, where J ;hey will descend, if weather conditions ir mechanical difficulties make it peces-larv, peces-larv, but thev will go on if possible to Poiita del Gada, San Miguel island. 1352 lautlcal miles from this port. This leg f the cruise from P.ockaway beach, N. ffl i, the planes' home station, to Plym-y.oiiih, Plym-y.oiiih, England, Is the only one which " fill require night flying. Speed Sixty Miles an Hour. The planes were expected to maintain in average speed of sixty nautical miles In hour, although they are capable of rnaking ninety miles if circumstances de-jn::nd. de-jn::nd. Temperature was expected to determine de-termine the flying altitude, but it was believed be-lieved 5000 feet would be the limit. I The NC-4, which was left behind at the CBtarl from Rockaway beach by her sister sis-ter craft because of engine trouble and arrived here from Halifax only yesterday, waB In the air today almost as soon as the flagship, rising after a swift twenty-fivp-mlmite cruise about Matton harbor. i The NC-1 made two unsuccessful at-cv at-cv tempts to leave the water while Com-hiir.der Com-hiir.der Towers's plane soared above it ... &nd the NC-4, but finally it rose, nine minutes after the flagship, and followed In the wake of the others, which headed tor the east as soon as it took the air. |