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Show Marine Airplane Trip Is Planned By NEA Service. , WASHINGTON The sun will meet its foremost rival in speed when a squndron of United States marine corps airplanes dash across the continent, perhaps this month. It will be the second flight, from dawn to dusk, made by American aviators. But it will be more than a spectacular spec-tacular flight, for the officers planning plan-ning it intend to demonstrate the reusability of a daylight trans-continental air mail service. I Major Ross Eowell. commander of the marine expeditionary group at San Diego, Calif., may lead the marine squadron in its dash across ihe country. His aim is to lower the record made by Lieutenant Rus-sel Rus-sel L. XIaughn, two years ago, when he hopped off at Minetola, L. I., at 3 o'clock in the morning and arrived ar-rived at San Francisco at 9:44 in the evening, Pacific time. This dawn-to-dusk flight kept Lieutenant JIaughn in the air for 18 hours and 2 minutes, over a stretch of 2G80 miles. He made five stops for fuel and food along the way. ' ' Major Rowell . plans a southerly route for his squadron's flight, with only three fueling stops along a route of the same distance. The squadron will leave Quantico,. Vain Va-in the early morning and fly to San Diego, stopping only at St. Louis. Lawton, Okla., and El Paso along the way. ; Thus their flight will more closely rival the non-stop flight made by Lieutenants John A. MacReady and Oakley G. Kelly in the spring of M2:1. This, although without a stop, lasted almost 2S hours for the 270H-mile 270H-mile journey from New York to San Diego. There will be three or more planes in Major Howell's squadron. I |