Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-14 | Page 1 | Plane on Long Flight

i Giant Bombing Machine On Non-Stop Trip to Chicago. EIGHT PASSENGERS Carries 1,500 Pounds of Clothing and Furs for American Express. M1NEDLA. N Y Nov 14 In the face of a twenty mile northwest wind. :ho ciant Hanley-Page bombing plane, commanded by Yice Admiral Mark Kerr, started from Mitchell field here at 7 o'clock this morning on an attempted at-tempted non stop flight to Chicago. It carried eia;ht passengers and 500 pound? of women's clothing and furs for the American Railway Express company. Admiral Kerr expected the trip to take about ten hours. Major J. Brackley of the British Royal Air oree. piloted the craft; Colonel Archie Miller, commanding all! army aviation fields on Long Island, was on board as a guest of Admiral Kerr Containers filled with hot food, which the passengers expected to eat en route, were placed on board The breakfast menu consisted of bacon, eggs, coffee, bread and butter. The purpose of the flight is to demonstrate dem-onstrate the possibilitv of aerial trans portation for rush express matter. The plane itself Is the largest type land plane in existence and has a cargo capacity of between six and seven ton- It was built for the pur pose of bombing Berlin, but was not completed until after the armistice. ROME, Nov. 14. (Havas) A mill-tars mill-tars pilot named Liert has broken the speed record for altitude, reaching a hi of 5000 meters in eleven minutes.