Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time. Yet, this summer, U. S. navy fliers propose to go from San Diego to Honolulu, something over 2,000 milesat least 20 hoursin a single hop. And Frenchmen propose to capture the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for a continuous Paris-New York flight.
Delaware River. Up and down the Philadelphia estuary, Lieutenants Kyle and Schildauer last week drove the PN9 from 10:22 one morning to 2:58 the next afternoona total of 28 hr., 36 min., making about 2,300 miles. Their faces...
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