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Show Plans Long Air Flights. Ocean-to-ocean flights along three routes for a transcontinental prize are planned by the Aero club of America Amer-ica as a part of its national 90-days" aeroplane competition, beginning July 4, next, the club announced. The competition, as stated in the club's recent announcement, is designed to assist the war and navy departments in developing aviation corps for the National Guard and naval militia, and also to demonstrate the practicability I of mail carrying by aeroplane to isolated iso-lated places. "To carry the competition into every state, the contest committee of the Aero club has outlined three main transcontinental routes," says the statement. "Every aviator in America Amer-ica will be able to reach one of these routes at some point by a cross country coun-try flight of moderate leng'iV The contest committee believes that there will be many aviators who, in flying for the daily cross country prizes of $100 a day, will find themselves on the way across the continent In pursuit pur-suit of this aim, and who will find it to their advantage to keep on in an effort to gain the sea to sea prize." |