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Show OCEAN FLIERS , IN READINESS Williams and Yancey Heady At Old Orchard; French Aces To Hop Off. TLTF.liliOKO AlKI'OKT. X. J., May 20 (U.Ri Koer Q. Williams Wil-liams and Lewis A. Yancey hopped off in their plane "The Green Flash", lor Old Orchard, Maine today, preparatory to making- a flight from the Maine resort to Itome. NEW YORK, May 20 U.'.l!) Two I sturdy monoplanes were poised to- I day the second anniversary of the ! start of the Lindbergh flight to Paris for attempts to snan the At- I lantic ocean. j Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancey were ready with their Bel- ) lanca monoplane, similar to the one Clarence Chamberlin piloted from New York to Germany. Three Frenchmen, Rene LcFcvre, Jean Assolant and Arrucno, Lotti Jr were delayed at Roosevelt field by heavy week end rains and treacherous weather over the Atlantic. At-lantic. Then men and plane were icady, but it appealed that It would be at least three days before a start ; could be made. Williams and Yancey have a new distance .mark as the objective of their flight. They are daring the air lanes which the old glory was traversing when it plunged into the ocean in the summer of 1927 If they succeed they will have covered more than 4,700 miles, in a single flight. The present long distance flight record is 4,448 miles, held by Capt : Arturo Ferrarin and the late Major Del Pj-ete, the Italians who- last July flew from Rome to Brazil Del Pi'cte died of injuries from an' ait-crash ait-crash at Guauabara Eay j |