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...prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker...
...Argonauts, Inc., formed to back Captain Fonck, that a ship, the S-35, would be made within 10% of certain specifications. No mention was made by Captain Fonck of Hotelman Orteig's $25,000 prize money and last week, with the Sikorsky ship a-testing, the public had all but forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters...
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 miles-at least 20 hours-in a single hop. And Frenchmen propose to capture the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for a continuous Paris-New York flight...