The Archive · 1928

Atlantic Flights Lure

Capt, Courtney to Make Another Attempt London, May 4.

Capt, Courtney, who attempted an Atlantic flight from east to west in September, but gave up at Corunna, is making another attempt this month in a Dornier-Napier flying-boat, which is being tested at Piso. She is of German design, built in Italy, and has two British Napier engines developing over New York, May 5.

A prize of $12,500, offered by Alwenner Gren, of Stockholm, for 'a successful slight from Europe to America, was presented at a dinner jast night to Baron von Huehnfeld, the owner of the Bremen, who handed it over (o Fraulein' Horta Junkers, insisting that she give it to her father, who built the aeroplane—Reuter,

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