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Show 0 MAIL PLANES LEAVE N. Y. FOR PACIFIC S ALL METAL SKY ;f CRUISERS WILL IANOJN UTAH Planes Piloted by Expert Avia- tors Will Lay Out Regular 1 Route f. 3l THROUGH SERVICE TO ! BE BEGUN SEPTEMBER 1 I Establishment of Regular Ser-I vice Will Cut Down Letter I Time One Half NEW YORK July 29. Three all -'JrIB metal monoplanes carrying tho first' transcontinental aerial mail, left the. ffiS J flvlng field at Central Park, L. I . atj ' 1S 10:08 'c,ock today fr San irrancl-5CO'J Eleven airpianoB eocui wu ii.v " continental planes in a flight over 5 19 New York before the Jump westward A on the pithtlndmg trip to establish an aerial mall route between here and ,iH the Pacific Coast. fhe monoplanes carried letters from LI the mavor of New York to the mayors of San" Francisco and other cities M, Ki0ng the route, which will follow In 'CU general that of the transcontinental jjW flight of army planes last year. SK' IN I TH. ciei el ""i ft tlrst bi heduh 1 w I Other stops will be made at Chicago, : ;EeU Omaha. Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, ke- jfflj no and San Francisco. The trip not only is expected to jK i make possible the establishment in September of regular aerial mail ser- , S3F vice from coast to coast but to -icld l-S Information of value to the war de- j?xB partment, Regarding this proposed extension to lne pacific coast of the air mall route, y "jJJSj which now ends at Omaha, Major L. 1MB u Lent, general superintendent of the air mail service, said WUJ CI i TIME. . -,'m "The through service, which will be M st ilted In September, will cut half fl the present five-day letter time to r San FranclSCO. At the start, the New --; im York-Omaha end of the run will be (a- covered by all-metal planes and the i tern hall by de Havilands, As iooii as we arc able we plan to put ljn the all-metal monoplanes on the en- frflRj lire run from coast to coast " 11 THOSE IN PARTY. sitfiJi Tho party Includes Colonel H E. iRiS Hartney. chief of training group, army air service. Major Lent, John M. Lar-M. Lar-M. son, owner and designer f tt" all- metal planes, aplam Tv.ldlo" V. Ric- lafimX. kenbacker. Lieutenant Charles R. MhPyy Colt, William B. Stout, of Lietrolt. de- 35 signer of airplanes. Gould Dlctz. of I Omaha; E W Allynne, of Cleveland Hs army and civilian photographers, p.l- ots and mechanics. Hg Two of the planes will be left on Hf the coast and one Is to be used for forest fire patrol by the air service. |