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Show Plan Airplane Service to South America PLANS are In the making for an airplane service linking New York with Central and South America, according to Abraham Martinez, director of the Colombian government information bureau. Service Serv-ice at first will be devoted to carrying mall, but It Is expected the passenger service eventually will be added, the director says. . According to the present plans there will be two lines one between New York and Buenos Aires, Argentine republic, re-public, and the other between New York and Barranquilla in Colombia. The New York-Barranquilla service will connect with the present air line between Barranquilla and the capital of Colombia, Bogota. The latter line has been in existence several years and carries passengers and mall, and is called one of the best in the world. Service between New York and Bogota Bo-gota therefore will be made possible by this connection. The route between New York and Barranquilla will take in New Orleans anS go through Mexico, Guatemala. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Pan-ama and thence to Barranquilla, which is on the north const of South America. The New York-Buenos Aires route will go along the const and over Florida Flor-ida to Key West, whtenee it will cross to the West Indies, by way of Cuba, Porto Rico, Haiti and other islands. It will touch South America first at Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela. Then the following countries of South America Amer-ica will be traversed : Colombia, Brazil, Bra-zil, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Ar-gentina. In connection with the New York-Buenos York-Buenos Aires route the organizers of the service point out that natural conditions con-ditions favor its success. Hydroplanes will be used. When the machines leave Key West they sweep around an arc in the Caribbean sea formed by the West Indies. The largest distance between any of these Islands is 75 miles, an easy distance. In South America, even though the route lies through its center, there will always be facilities for easy landing in hydroplanes, since the route follows the course of the largest rivers of the continent, the Orinoco, the Amazon and the Parana. |