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Show MAIL NIGHT FLYING TO BE PpiIEIIT Schedules Put Salt Lake on Day Shift CHEYENNE, Wyo, March . Night flying by air mail pilots will be inaugurated in-augurated between Cheyenne and Chicago Chi-cago May 1. according to an announcement announce-ment by officials of the Omaha-Bait Lake City division of the aerial mall route. The decision to make night flying a regular feature of the service was reached after Pilot Jack Knight successfully msde his night flight to Chicago recently. It was stated. According to the demonstration made by the air service on Its recent trial. Salt Lake will never be on the night flying part of the route, says Claron Nelson, superintendent ' of WnnHw-i d.i n n,,!, jn,r, au the nocturne! flights will be msde between be-tween Cheyenne and Chicago by pilots going both ways. The planea will leave Sen Francisco at 4 o'clock in the morning, and. according ac-cording to schedules already established, estab-lished, will be able to reach Cheyenne before dark, paaslng through Bait Lake in the afternoon. The mall will then sail through the night to Chicago, to be picked up there In the early morning morn-ing and hurried on to New York by 1H 1ST Ileal f"llin(. Com in westward, a similar early etart will to made at New York .nd " the planea will reach Chic no In the evening. They will then cross the Middle Western states during the night, arriving at Cheyenne the next morning. Leaving Cheyenne before sunup, they will pass through Salt Lake about o'clock In the morning and will reach 8an Kranclsco by night. The distance across the continent will thus be made In thirty-six hours. |