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Show PATIENT TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BY PLANE NEW YORIx. March 11. Bound to a stretcher aboard a naval flying coat, IjicLitenant David Gray, a convalescent officer, accompanied hy a woma n aeria! nurse, was carried through spare- today from (he naval air station at Rockaway, Dong Island, to St. Luke's hospiiai, Manhattan, Man-hattan, about eighteen miles, In forly-nine forly-nine minutes. The fug In was taVen to demons trn tc the practicability of transferring wounded soldiers by airplane. Lieutenant Stevens piloted tho seaplane and Major Helen ua-stedo ua-stedo of the woman's motor corps, who suggested the trip, was the nurse. The patient was transferred from the aircraft to a dory after a landing had been made on the Huilson river. Me was then rowed ashore and taken in" a motor ambulance to a hospital. - |