Captain Fonck aims at winning the prize of $6,000 for the first non stop flight from the United States to France, He will be accompanied by a U, S, naval lieutenant, named 'Curtin as pilot, also by a mechanic and a wireless' operator, He will follow the const to Novit Scotia, thence he will head for Treland and finally' for Cherbourg and Paris, 1 Captain Fonck will fly in a giant Sikorsky biplane capalfte of "sused flight for two days. Tt will carry emergency gas-bags for Inflation by hydrogen in the event of the airmen being forced to alight on the sea—Reuter,
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