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Show AVIATORS WILL ATTEMPT FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC Incentive Is $50,000 Prize Offered by the London Daily Mail. LONDON. April I. Several aviators already al-ready have announced their Intention of competing for the Dally stall's lee, sea prise for a trans-Atlantic flight. Gordon Kngisnd, a British airman, and Herr Kumnler, a German Inventor, have declared de-clared that tiier will enter the eoatest, and the Blertots and Capt. F Cody ear that they will be competitors In both the Atlantic flight and that around Britain. The Hall says the beat experts believe that the Atlantic prise will be won before the end of 1114. Horace Short, the builder of the navy water planes, considers a flight from America to Great Britain, with the help of the wind, almost feasible, and says Chat a flight In the reverse direction rosy be accomplished within eighteen months. The only skeptics, adds the Mall, are the builders of Oennan airships, who know nothing about water planes. Major Von Parsevsl considers an Atlantic flight far beyond the realms of present possibilities. |