Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-29 | Page 2 | First Banquet is Held on Airplane

FIRST BANQUET IS HELD ON AIRPLANE ELIZABETH, ' N. J., Nov. 28 The first aerial banquet in history was held today on an airplane 2800 feet above the new flying field of the Unite'd States air mail -service here, marking the inauguration' inau-guration' of the field as the terminus of the aerial mail service hetween New York, Philadelphia and Washington. A few minutes after the mail plane, in charge of Pilot Majr Miller, left the field at 12:10 this afternoon, a big Hand-ley-Pago machine rose under control of Captain E. B. Waller of the Royal Flv-ing Flv-ing forces, and during a flight of twenty-two minutes above the grounds a real Thanksgiving dinner was served to nine persons. Among the guests were Captain Cap-tain Benjamin B. Lipsner, superintendent of the air mail service, and Allen R. Haw ley, Augustus Post and other officials offi-cials of the aero club of America. Speaking of the proposed nation-wide oxtensjon of the mall service, Captain 1 Lipsner said: "We will have machines which will carry a ton and a half of mall, and the days of freight and parcel post by airplane air-plane are coming."