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Show HUGE PLANE CAPITOL Aircraft Leaving Pacific Coast Today Is Due in - Washington Monday; Capacity 2500 Pounds By Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Nov. 23. Bound for Washington, I). C, with only two stops scheduled sched-uled between, "102," the Loug-head Loug-head biplane, left Santa Barbara at 6:05 this morning. Just befor ths start Mayor NlelsoW handed O. H. T. Myerhoffer, ths chief pilot, messages to mayors of leming. .V. M.. snd Peoria, 111., whers the machine ma-chine will alight for supplies. Ieming ; te expected to be reached by 1:30 i o'clock this afternoon and Peoria on Hunday afternoon. The machine party will lay over at Iemlng until Hunday morning. Washington is expected to j be reached some time Monday. I Myerhoffer alto carries a messsgs j from Governor W. L. tstephens to Prenident Wilson. The plne carries supplies sufficient for a 100-mlle nonstop flight. It will follow the Southern Pacific railroad tracks serosa the desert. It whs ron-atructed ron-atructed here by Allan and Malcolm l,o uk head Htid It has a csrrymg ra-pacfty ra-pacfty of 2M0 pounds, whw h Inrtudes . three pas-ngern, and can reach an altitude al-titude of about 14,000 feet. |