Show ARMY FLIGHT ROUND WORLD IS LAUNCHED Planes to Be Out of Sight of Land Four Times CLOVER FIELD SANTA MON MON- MONICA MONICA ICA Calif March 17 W The Tho army flight around the world orld started today at 9 82 a 0 m mTh The Th flight Is not a raco race Around round the tho th world but Is a pioneering ex exploration trip carefully mapped out to determine a l practical air air- airway air I I way around the worl and to obI ob- ob obtain tam tain scientific data dalA on too tn effect ot of oI I various climates on modern air air air- aircraft craL craft cratt There will bo be b ro 10 I lar lilt dashes although many litany legs lee ot of tho great journey will bo b replete t I with thrills In the vei of or cli- cli experienced from from rm arctic to tropic variation 1 I TI AROUND WORLD ORLD During the th tour four or moro more mor months of the tho th flight the a will be II out of sight sift t ot of land only tour four our time The longest Ions jump will wUl be b sOl sorpe son miles mile and stations b have ve been es- es established i e-i around aroud the tho th earth wIth Ith I experIenced Am American army fliers rs already there or In the th moro more mor ro- ro re remote mote moto ones en route from stations information wilt bo be b relay relay- relayed relayed I ed cU b back k to earlier points point to pro pro- provide pro vid vide ride the fliers with Ith complot In- In Information In Information formation on and mo mc- mc mo It will bo ho a journey with the tho sun so 50 arranged that the mot moot blo conditions In each section I may be bp mot met The Th arctic region relon Is accessible oni In the spring thet theio-foro theio o fore foro It Is best belt suited to go so through the tho Aleutian Islands across the tho Po- Po Pa Pacific In April This time will nI bring the tl fliers rs Into the tho th far tar eastern Lit Lit- Littoral Lit Littoral toral loral In time to clear through before the t tj phoon sea sea- season sea season son and through the Greenland Iceland region before the tho th winter season caon starts UP PACIFIC PI COAT COAST The flight will 1 III be up the coast to Alaska with Ith tin jut OHI o top stOp top at Sacramento ilif tonight another stop Hop at r nou bar bar- bar barracks racks rachS Tuesday and a II sojourn of ot ee leral etal days at Seattle begInning Wednesday for or the th pur pur- pur- pur purpose purpose po pose o of ot changing landing pear gear for tor pontoons Thence th tin thO CI tI oser OHr o er Columbia to Alas Alas- Ala Alaska Alaska ka ha across atron The he ho Al Aleutian Islands to I Ithe the north of ot Japin Japsi n do through Japan across Chosen to Chino China ovet ovel Mesopotamia and Syria 0 o er er th the Holy Land through I Turkey over oer Rumania Serbia Aus AUS- Austria tria German France England Ireland and r o 0 er the Orkney sana ann Faroe Islands Inlands to Ic Iceland land Green Green- Greenland Greenland Greenland land down through I Canada and the th Ne Now N T England l to Washington VL and thence across I the country to Clover r Field |