Show ATLANTIC FLIGHT IN INi i SECRET PLANE TO BE TRIED British Aviators Ready to Attempt rr a Trip 1 by Associated PressY Press Y BERLIN March The Rumple r airplane factory in Bavaria the plant which produces the noted Taube airplanes airplanes air air- planes has under construction a giant gianta a airplane intended for a transatlantic flight By Associated Press D N March British 19 avla- avla l rs are areto to try for a flight a across ross tit the e Atlantic A secretly built airplane accompanied ac- ac companied by Harry Hawker as pilot hd Commander MacKenzie l Grieve r royal yal navy as navigator tor was shipped England Monday for St St. Johns from which It start at t the earliest possible moment In an attempt to wit win the Dally Daily Mall prize of c for the first machine to fly across a ross the Atlantic 0 The machine Is a two seater biplane with a horsepower engine The is boat shaped Sand and will the machine in the water Pilot Hawker said he believed that t e flight would occupy about nineteen nine nine- teen t n and o half one hours h he said h d flown miles In nine and five minutes on third one of Ax Its petrol capacity and Is capable of maintaining a speed of miles an hOur blur for twenty five hours Note Harry G. G Hawker won the British Michelin prize for 1912 by a flight of eight hours and twenty three minutes He has made many long dis- dis tl nce flights along the British coast lIe established a worlds world's altitude record rec- rec ord rd of feet teet In 1916 Newfoundland Newfoundland Newfound Newfound- land lies nearer to Europe than any other part of North America the distance dis- dis tance nce being about 1900 miles l F t-S t By Associated PI Press ess jW March tenant Commander Bellinger has been ordered Oi from Norfolk to Washington t fir r work In connection with the prep prep- of plans for the transatlantic to be undertaken n by a big navy seaplane some time in the spring It was said today at the navy department that no orders had been Issued for the flight fight itself and that in all probability he t e plane would not start across the Atlantic until some time In May The pilot has not been selected plans for the flight provide for t r placing destroyers every few hundred hun hun- tIred dred miles along the route so that at atno ii no time will the big plane be unac- unac h ti The route of the light flight has not definitely been determined upon but probably ably ly will be from some point on the north orth Atlantic coast via the Azores ti France Fran e or Great Britain The seaplane will be equipped with and by means of a relay through the destroyers It will be able t maintain constant communication with Ith shore |