THE welcome extended to Captain d'Oisy is still fresh in memory when we have the pleasure of extending " similar cordial greeting to the American aviators, who in beautiful weather arrived yesterday afternoon. In @Oisy's case bad luck attended him only when he reached Shanghai: provided with another machine he has since pursued a splendid course around north China, Manchuria and Korea and we earnestly hope that skill and good fortune will bring him safely to his journey's end in a few days' time. With the American tiers, all the worst of their Journey was at the beginning.
seems hardly conceivable that seroplines and aviators can have battled through such weather and temperatures as they survived in their Sight across the northern Pacific. It was a_ magnificent achievement on which the Aracrcan airmen are warmly to he complimented; and it may be hoped that in compensation for their endurance at the outset, the same sunny shies which have cheered them_since they reached Japan will continue to smile upon them till they reach home again.
'Meanwhile the success of these world flights adds new interest to the old controversy of lighter' or heavier than air." Is it the aeroplane or the airship which is destined to be the most popular
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