Show to try to beat U S air record england france and portugal prepare for round the world flight D C holding pria firefly all 11 the airplane records record that or are worth while including those base tor fee intal speed altitude endurance durance fi and dla I 1 tance lance the united itata will now ime un danake to be tile the tint first to circum nai gets the be gad globe by air angland tiled filed last bummer but failed the attempt ending binding ill disastrously beal the grand circuit was half completed but hg h g land Is planning to try again go and ad france and porto portugal go I 1 or are albo 6 ing to make tile the attempt I 1 ecart during the coming calling summer met accordingly the plans of the army air service at aie now going forward 1 in order that an early start may b be made possibly powe y jo in march suit and not inter it cr ilia than b may 1 in older 01 der that the country thit th it is ie the home of the heavier than all c raft craft m may by be first to accomplish the epochal feat not only must an earl eal start be an made ad I 1 but the most careful and most elaborate preparations preparation a be made to guard against evera possible con pungency thit might defeat tile the under taking HV Uhe toute ie must most he be mapped implicit out at at with th exactness supply depots established ambli hild and locked lifts every pose pos sible bible necessity lending places selected and ad marked old and a thoL ind and one a details looked led after an one an of which chib ill might lit seem inconsequential in advance tit I 1 t might prove to be the one me thin T no upon on which success m or failure I 1 hinges it nce ov have has N no T thought bah of fail failure T the 1 men 11 aho w ho are tour enough i chous the and ld milling to risk their lives live lu the effort to achieve this further double if alon for their country will be backed up V I 1 in n evera ev vay ay and if failure should result it lill ft be dae to causes seen and hant could not have been guarded n t abt A As a miltor r nt f fact the men ill who are M laving foxing the plans and mulling king the advance hill have C no choti thought lit of failure and Iri siv that the nor non stop transcontinental flight was in many re ejects beer a more dif difficult feet feat serm tr of in nr IN treeka beks vi was be con convinced I 1 need thai hud there them is I 1 an edeell excellent at chance once of late ce ceas and ad approved appi oved the pi eject early last month eq equipment I 1 to B used four in big g air cr cruisers american di designed and it american built and ad equip pod ped sit with 11 albert cogile ual hill he be used in the undertaking ahe start will ofil he be made fro fanni IV n old find tile lie finish if the ill ht 1 ib s cle fut will be at 1 the national capital athe tile the tent tentative rout U that I 1 has been upped mapped out at t pinte min it J f 1 from 1 washington to seattle thence north 0 r ua evurd I 1 along the c coast out of canada code and vard herma 1 bouthern alaska 11 l 1 biross maw the aleutian islands blood la down a ile he possessions as goki go lal re of japan to nagasaki N ki ahm along llie b shore b of f cities china b reach indo ind can culna st slam 1 and 1 blame see across indie dp at tle tile ars bulf gulf act across turkey and od pumps to gambled thence north through tile the r faroe islands to ireland iceland 1 thence ace to Gro til greenland luland nd bd rd along the eastern stem shore shine of tile the continent to cape farewell borew 11 greenland fee from elu whence ruee a direct filsht flight will ili be made to 1111 hamilton il faill 1111 lal t on tile the coast of I 1 alranor thence e bout southward h word hward along ties the canadian coast mol and inland to M rid and ad tle south to washington profiles it itinerary tl y it it ir planned 1 lu I time 1 a 1 the I e a so an be as to arld ties the relay in the united hwe fibula and in india ill and ad to past over w the iceland and il ilk les aloit during the at j august bull and september 1 hie I ile prep proposed d I 1 itinerary 1111 cy has in bell been divided into the 1 divisions as lin follow flo first feet be hig nt at washington Within gom D C and ad ending nt at an aatu island based 1 in the aleu ale hung wand second ending or nt nagasaki jadia third coding at CI calcutta lints 1 in ill dia fourth ending at constantinople tit luikey aby fifth f h ending ing at U hull 1 eng bm annd d W sixth th ed ending in g a at t tt IN ashington D 0 C one alliance officer will oil cover met each section of this route mute said bield an empett in describing tile the undertaking obtain ing detailed information on loading and seaplane aea plane facilities transportation meteorological end and 1111 th conditions ct etc and ad nill make the at ar range ments for the passage of the air all ship ill through the territory to which Is lie la Is assigned supplies will hae to be eb prod from the united SIR to various points point on the route mute se sevell 1 months in advance of tile night flight and for this purpose elch eich division has a maln main depot with one or more are BUD b depots where major items item of supply it be 11 located allocated old and oil 11 so and aIler articles article ol of supply will on be iced at practically of all stops will carry pontoons Pon at seattle the landing gears linb will be e I 1 iken he oft fr and tile PI planes ell will b be e upped a it ath h pont pon pontoons B in order to make li water a ter landing tn in the sheltered thir harbors bace along the coast of canada and alaska and through the aleutian la is linds finds do down to jar japin Lindl tig gears mil aill be used mad agun either cither hom no na or from calcutta d pending upon the conditions en encountered I 1 at the if atine of the flight will feces 11 be used teer across asia minor and ad europe I 1 as fr fir be as ahee pon t s mil ill be substituted d no acain a and used need until Alim treal 1 Is reached hed or key port hu N J where hem tie the planes 01 HI IV he again to mike timid ld daml will be taken u of fc course of at existing alinay it facHt lles in tills bit country and between ind indeli anil ad r ang tied lind and it is thought that southern japan also will sill fiord afford 1118 eonden coave alece 9 of that nature llie ibe remainder if t the b B route 1 must a he ga glien Ilman the most loal careful an eurvis rc and 4 a ex tion ties has alreed be hen in tile ald cicat clar clarence aa ri curtail Cur tarl he haa been in greenland matting making an life of conditions endI tille old and ai lation facilities in that C country try and limit LI cut clifford 0 ott mitt who ebo has been in the philippines u is p to liae he a similar survey surrey of at japan bud and the japanese insular pass possessions I 1 that will be crosses crossed by the proposed propose d flight both thew these officers file were mem a bera ber of the that made the a successful flight to alaska tour four years ag go Lobi longest part hop of if flight aleut aholt elik eill 11 andson who bho was I 1 the h a cimo cring officer on the alas alaskin k an hialit his been charged with the ret or if tile the con traction truc tion of the planes that are to be aled 1 in the round the e world orld flight in to ills his ex pelen ce in cannee it alon with ill the alaskan expedition lieutenant nelson kelson nna caa alth tile the light flight of adir arm ill peanea from san antonio to tex ahe is IN ft est bel indies andee to port borto ill nico and the thence to 11 ahe longest lep hop 1 in the flight around amund ill the world orld as projected will be from aatu attu island d in the A Aleut ling to par para lia arbi id i lead island 1 in the northern nor thein part of abla ill hie iiii id ile wand group I a posie all sion tile the other lon 1011 1 no non stop step flibbe will off ile he that over the atlantic but hetteen no the P us 1 IR ends and iceland bill isqueen iceland Icel tind tied greenland and the lie one bete between econ greenlee greenland and I 1 port in the northern pitt part of und |