Jones aimounced, tony that on Friday they will start a new atten te fy from Seatt to Tokyo in their Lockheed-Vega monoplane, the Fort Worth, A new and more powerful motor has been installed in the plane and hope is held by the aviators that on their next non-stop Fefuelling attempt they will be successful, Early this month the Fort Worth flew safely to Fairbanks, Alaska, where it was refuelled aloft from a tri-motored Ford refuelling plane in charge of Mr, Greener, The two planes then flew on to Nome where, after attempting in vain for two hours to refuel the Fort Worth, Mesars, Robbins and Jones were forced to descend. They flew back to Seattle by way of Fairbanks and promptly began preparations for a. new attempt.
If they succeed in reaching Tokyo in the Fort Worth the American aviators will win the—G.$25,000 prize offered by the Tokyo "Asati," one of Japan's greatest newspapers, for the first non-stop flight between Japan and the United States i either direction,
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