Show WORLD fLIERS TO DISREGARD TIME I Earths Earth's Airway to Be Traversed Traversed Tra-I Tra Tra Tra- versed for Purpose of Determining Benefit of Commercial Aviation SANTA MONICA Cal CaI March 15 By A. A P When P.-When When the squadron of the United States army air service starts upon Its world the flight from flom Santa Monica March 17 no attempt will be made for a time record unless conditions obtain that will vill not interfere with the success success suc sue I cess of the undertaking Preparations have been made on the basis ot of completing the flight without consideration of a time record and with the idea of learning learning learn learn- ing tug as much as possible of ot the practical practical benefit of the effort of cOl commercial com mercial aviation The Tho only element of time considered considered considered consid consid- ered in working out a theoretical schedule is that the flight light must be completed by the latter part of ot August This is due to the fact that that part of the flight to be made after leaving Denmark must be conducted when the northern waters waters wa wa- waters around the southern end of ot Greenland are comparatively free from ice After August it is expected expect expect- ed those water will become too thickly congested with ice to permit permit permit per per- mit landings FLIERS ARE READY the In preparation tot for the flight selected to make male it have ha gone through a course of ot training at Langley Field Va Ya the course in including including in- in eluding navigation meteorology and flying firing in the type tyle of ot plane to be used in the roun world the the l-the world flight These world cruisers ar are re le- le signed as both land and water type being readily cOn converted by the interchangeable in Interchangeable In- In I feature of and pontoons The pontoons will be attached to the planes first at Seattle Wash and will remain until the fliers filers reach Japan Then It Is Is- to I substitute the landing gears which will be used across Asia Minor and nd ndE I E ppe as far faras as Hull England At Atthe the latter place the he pontoons will again be attached to the planes and used t ii the flight reaches Mon treal a N. N N. N J. J J r P PATHFINDERS OUT f fA A feature of the the preparations for forthe forthe I the flight was th the ing ex expeditions expeditions expeditions ex- ex I of two officers who went I over what are res ree-ardt d th the most difficult portions ot of t the 1 route route Leiu- Leiu I tenant Clarence E E. Crumrine covered covered coyer cov coy er ered d the sp span n between Hull England England England Eng Eng- land and Montreal paying particular lar attention n to Greenland where two landings must be made under the most difficult conditions LIeutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu LIeu- tenant Clifford rd l C. C Nutt went to the Philippine Is Island nd and thence to the Asiatic mainland to make preliminary prelim prelim- mary inary arrangements through courtesies courte court courtesies sies extended by the government of ot Japan China Great Britain and France r. r The Time Aeronautical hamber of of commerce of America gave Valuable Valuable Val Val- assistance to the air service in all aJI preparations for the flight flie AIRWAY LAID OUT The proposed airway around the earth has been subdivided into six divisions as as' as f follows First beginning beginning begin begin- ning rung at Washington D. D C C. and ending ending ending end end- ing at Attu island Attu-island island in the Aleutian n group second ending at Nagasaki Japan third ending at Calcutta India fourth ending ending- at Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople Constan Constan- fifth ending at London sixth ending at Washington Each division will have a main depot with with one or or more for major i items ems of ot supply Gasoline oil and amid smaller articles of supply have beep been pl placed ced at virtually all stops Scattered at us points along the tho proposed route have been placed the equivalent in parts of fifteen Liberty engines with which I Ithe the planes are equipped and about I per per- cent nt replacements in m the tho 1 airplanes themselves Extra pontoons pen pon pon-I pon have been stored along the time route where the flying will be en entirely entirely entirely en- en over water MILES FLIGHT The longest leg of the flight ac according according according ac- ac cording to the present will willbe willbe be from Attu island to I ru island In the north northern ern part of the islands ds group a possession possession posses posses- sion of Japan Other long flights will be necessary over ver the Atlantic ocean between the Faroe islands islands' and Iceland between Ic Iceland and Greenland and between Greenland and northern Can Canada da The logest of these Is Is' Is about miles I |