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...seven years since a humming speck moved across the 1,960 miles of fog-hung ocean separating Newfoundland and Ireland, and deposited Captain John W. Alcock and Lieutenant A. Whitten Brown safely on "the other side" in 16 hours, 12 minutes. The late Lord Northcliffe enriched those two flyers with some $50,000 in prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond...
Boston, Halifax, Cape Breton, Cape Bonavista, Cape Clear (Ireland), Cornwall, Cherbourg, LeHavre, Paris. The ship will probably be started with all three motors roaring, a special carriage being necessary to help her off the ground. (This will be dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic...
...Just prior to the Alcock-Brown flight, Pilot Harry Hawker and Lieut. MacKenzie Grieve made a bid for the Northcliffe money in a single-motored plane, but pitched into the sea short of Ireland, being rescued by a Danish tramp-steamer. The U. S. Army globe-fliers (1924) stopped at Greenland en route from Scotland. Dirigibles to cross the Atlantic without a stop: the R34 (British), 1919; the ZR3 (Los Angeles...
...Most Excellent Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, finally attained and held for 50 minutes a pinning speed of one decoration every six seconds...
...esculent near Quito onetime Peruvian possession, now capital of Ecuador. In 1553, a Seville chronicle mentions it under the name of "battata" or "papa." Later the potato spread to Italy and Belgium, where it did not "take." In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh planted it on his estate near Cork, Ireland, where is multiplied...