Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 4 | Fantastic

FANTASTIC LD Darius Green who had a lamentable experience ex cx- O OLD with hi his flying machine never imagined nn anything thin like this this that that an aerial mail train would plough through the skies and drop off ocr cars ears here here and there But that's that what a New York dispatch tells about as scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- to happen next Monday A mail plane will take off from New York hitched to it like the tail of or a kite three big gliders each with a pilot As the fa fast t air mail passes over Philadelphia one of or the gliders will uncouple itself from the train to the fhe ground round under the skilful nl management of the theman theman theman man in the craft He lie will maneuver cr it to the airmail station on the air field Simi Simi- arh another will be cut off the train over oyer Baltimore and the pilot of or the third hopes to toland toland toland land his ship thip on the time Vh White te House grounds ground as ns the regular airplane continues to Boiling field Now Kow that's something 1 Postmaster General Farley has promised the venturesome air ail jockeys his full cooperation Just what that may mean is a little HUle vague It just doesn't seem reasonable that even a postmaster general junketing junketing junketing jun jun- around in the far west can be of any great help to four men up in the air three thousand miles away It seems more likely that it is just another case of extending moral support or best wishes or something glike like that A good nights night's rest and anda a clear conscience would seeni to be bc of more aid to the daring airmen than anything a could do for them J John ohn Riggs is to be the thc pilot of the time regular mail plane and find the glider glide pilots will willbe willbe willbe be Jack O OMeara 1 1933 33 glider champion Stanley Stan- Stan Icy hey Smith and Dr B. B E. E Franklin of Michigan Just as a matter of personal preference active membership in iii a croquet club is far more in intriguing in- in tri ui than a place on the crew of an nn aerial m mail l l train For whatever use it may be to the intrepid quartet we cheerfully add our own moral support to that preferred by bJ the cabinet member