Show TO FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC airplane manufacturers make long distance machines tempted by big prizes offered by newspapers and aviation clubs paris airplane manufacturers are losing no time in developing long dis tance machines for transatlantic flights for which tempting prizes have been offered by various newspapers and aviation clubs the rumors persist in paris that a handley page machine has already crossed the ocean from newfoundland to ireland but that the flight as kept secret in order that the germans might not know that a machine had been produced which could bomb berlin alie allies had secret information that the enemy felt perfectly secure about the inability of airplanes to fly that far into the wi get back and had practically no antiaircraft battersea batt erlea posted to protect his capital it was realized that once it became known n plane had crossed the atlantic the noche would take the tip and strengthen his defenses at berlin has constructed a quadruple motor biplane equipped with four propellers and driven by engines generating more than 1000 horsepower horse power which he believes can negotiate the transatlantic flight this machine will have an average speed of miles an hour and can carry gasoline and oil for SQ hours the body of the machine extends the whole length of the fuselage from the nose to the tailpiece and the crew can walk up and don through the passi geay multiple wheels make landings easier and safer has also constructed a bl motor machine with two tractor and two pusher propellers which he believes cau fly 2000 ailles without stop the biernot machine la a bl plane but the lower wines are eawh smaller alinn the upper the lines of tho chae model the biernot plane Is expected to maintain a speed 0 ICO miles nn hour to 24 hours |