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Show Air Mail Tests Show Success Chicago, One of the most severe aircraft tests in the history of aviation avia-tion was co-:npleted Saturday, when mail planes dropped out of the sky at New York and San Francisco and disgorged their burdens of letters. Since last Tuesday the airplanes have roared across the continent, spanning the country eight times in less than five days, four times from east to west and four times from west to east, in testing the feasibility of carrying mail between t!e Atlantic and the Pacific by continuous air route. During Dur-ing the time of the transcontinental flights eastward and westward the planes operated on a definite schedule of a little more than twenty-four hours without an accident and in relaying re-laying the mail from coast to coast flew at night over a lighted highway from Chicago to Cheyenne. Postal officials said even before the tests ot the project had been proved and announced an-nounced that a conference will soon be held t determine the future of transcontinental airplane mail, service. |