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Show LONG AIR FLIGHT PLANNED BY U. S. 1RMYFLIER " Hopes to Cross Continent in One-Day, One-Stop Trip "AN ANTONIO. Tex.. All 4 (Br A. P.I. A one-day one-Hop flight from Jacksonville. Kin, to flan Diego, ral., is ths aim of Lieutenant James H. Dm-little, Dm-little, who left Kelly field hfre (hit morning In the special De Havlland alrplana.ln which h will attempt the trip The date for the transcontinental trip haa not been definitely set. hot ftoolfttle expecta to remain In Jack-onvllle Jack-onvllle a few days, renins and wstch-Inir wstch-Inir weather furecaate. He plana to I take to the air about dusk soma eve-I eve-I nlng next week for an all nig ht flight I to San Antonio, spend half an hour I here taking on fuel and resume hie I fllKht. reaching Han Diego before dark. Ixolittle's airplane Is an ordinary Del Havlland, which he reconstructed to accommodate only one man and carry ! 276 gallons of gaeoline and twenty-four twenty-four gallons of oil. The fuel Is sufficient suffi-cient for a 1200-mile flight. While the venture Is being made under un-der authority from the chief of the air service. Lieutenant iJoolfttle la paying hla own expenses. Air service officials here say the trip Is prsctlcahle and that the filer will be aided by the moonlight, gulf coast line and lights of the larger cities of Penaacola, New Orleans, Iteaumoni and Houston. The officials say that success In the flight would mean that In time of war the entire air fleet of the United mates could be moved across the continent In one day, In an emergency. |