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Show ALL RECORDS BEATEN III AIR MAILfLIGHT Relay Trip Acros Nation in ' Continuous Service , Test Accomplished in 26 Hour and . 14 Minutei AN FRANCISCO. An JM Anethwc noy In th air mail trans-eontinsntsl day and night taat flight wu atabtihed today yl'afrpl'm'na " fri in'"" ""JJ p. m.. r tw hwr and 41 mln-ut mln-ut ahead af eehedule. Vector-day'a Vector-day'a airplane arrlvad hara at 1i4S p. mH tha raaerd up ta that time, and today' laat etiaped alavan minutaa from that record. HEMPSTEAD. N. T, Aug. 14. All raoorda for a (llcht serosa tha continent were bmkan today whan Pilot Wesley U Smith of the air mall service leaded here at 11:14 o'clock. Eastern standard time, com. plating a relay mall flight from Ban Francleco la 11 houra and 14 minute. min-ute. Th bast prevlou record waa held by Lleutenanta Kelley and MacReady f th army lr forces, who made a nonetop flight recently from New Tork to Ban Diego In 11 houra and ad . minute. Th route taken by th mall plane wae longer than that covered by th army filers Tha mall flight concluded by Pilot Smith waa completed In 4 hour and 1 minute leea than the ached-uled ached-uled 1 hour aad It minutes The laat lap of the flight, from Cleveland, Cleve-land, waa coeered In 1 houra and 14 mlnutea. The San Francisco mall Brought by Pilot Smith waa tha third batch tn arrive here In the teat the post-office post-office department haa been conducting con-ducting thle week. The pouchea left San Francleco yesterday morning at 4 o'clock Paclflo time. Tha atraight-away flight tlma 'from the coast, it waa announced, waa about an hour leea than the elapeed time, there are (lx tops, and ten minute 1 required at each etop. The elapeed time bettered by one and aeven mtnutea the time of the oaatbound flight ended yeaterday, which bad set . a record tor th tranaoontlnental mall testa ' Aa Smith waa creasing Central Park at Fifty-ninth etreet. losing the altitude of 10,004 feet which he had maintained during most of the flight from Cleveland, be paaeed over Pilot Collins, going out with the westbound mall. Smith said he had experienced freesing weather at th high altitude. ... East bound mall which left San Francisco thla morning reached Salt Lake at 11:14 p. m. from Elko. Nev In a plane piloted by-Kenneth Un-er. Un-er. Pilot Blshoo hopped off for Rook Springe, Wys . one minute later. Pilot Bob Kill reached Salt Lake at 1:14 a. m. from Rock 8pringa, Wye, with westbound mall. Kenneth Ken-neth Unger hopped oft for Elko, Nev.; three mlnutea later. Beport to the local airmail head-Quarters head-Quarters aald Pilot Chandler reached Rock Springe from Cheyenne Chey-enne at 4:44 a. m, and Pilot Ellis took off for Bait Lake within three mlnutea : CHICAGO, Aug. 14 (By A. .) The last tranaoontlnental air mall flight in tha teat period conducted by the pos toff Ice department began this morning when planee left San Francleco and New Tork on the eait bound an d westbound aoaat-to-coast flights. While poetofflce department officiate offi-ciate aald th experiment wae a suoceee and had accomplished what It waa Intended to do, to prove that aircraft can bo operated at night on regular, achedulea, thay prepared to chock up on the daia collected. A regular transcontinental transcontinen-tal air mall service, operated both day and night, la aaeured aa a reeult of the teat a. Postmaster New stated. Until It begin a, taa air snail will be operated aa tt hae been durlna? the oaat twenty -elsrht months With the termination of the fllgbta begua today, a combined distance of approximately 14.004 mile will hav,been covered. 1004 of which will haVe been flown over a night air way, which was lighted at a cost of a half million dollar, dol-lar, offlclala said. Mora than two hundred time that eum would be required to provide railroad mail transportation llnea ever the nam route. It waa aald. When a record of four minute under the erheduled time for the ast bound flight waa established yesterday on the third day of the tests, fondest hopee of air mall offlclala war fulfilled. , OMAHA. Neb.. Aug. 14. Twe billion two hundred and fifty million mil-lion candle power, radiating a combined dlatsnce of 740 mllea. powerful enough to penetrate the Iheavleat' eloudhanka nature mey 'devlae, which, if used In th average aver-age dwelling. In separate unit ordinarily required. would light mllliona of homos, from the "mid. night tun" of temperate North America, in the direct path of which Ihe - transcontinental aerial mall carriers ara flying. The five beacon lighta, each of 4S.04.a candle power, traversing travers-ing th ethereal path of these skymen, sky-men, one each located at Chicago. Omaha. Iowa City, North Platte. Neb, and Cheyenne, Wyo In addition addi-tion to Innumerable lesser lights along the entire route of the air line bridging th country. Atlantic to Pacific, conauromate the pm-neers pm-neers dream of a biased tranacoa-uaental tranacoa-uaental trail. . . |