To the Biditor of the "Nowrit-Cina DaiLy News."
Sim,—Reading the account of the "Pathfinder's" fight across. the Atlantic and being of a curious nature, I went to. the trouble of working out the time the plane was in the air, but arrived at a 4 different figure from that of 314 ours, quoted! in your paper this: morning. Maybe my calculations fave sadly at fault; if 80, T stand:
corrected.
Taking the longitude of Old Ox-chard as 10° W. and Santander as }4* W, (as near as may be), which ives a difference of 66° or, being expressed in time, a difference 4 hours, 24 minutes between the two places.
They left Old Orchard at 5.39 jam, and landed at 940 p.m, an apparent flight of 39 hours, 31 minutes, but from which the correetion of 4 hours, 24 minutes (for difference in time between start and finish): must be subtracted, as the fight was eastward, giving us a result of 85 hours and 7 minutes, {The-actual duration of the flight, Maybe one of your nautical correspondents' can attest the accuracy otherwise of my calculations, A Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.