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Show CUR UNO PLANE SPEED COMPARED bssex Went Across Nation Almost as Fast as Air Mail Machine WfthOUt regal il to geographical location, lo-cation, thn American public recently focused its attention on the flight of i to first transcontinental fnlted States mail airplane, ft wa realised win n the plane SUc'CeSSfully traversed fhf higher air paths and landed In S.m Pranclsco with Its load of mall that the event was epochal and per-I per-I haps marked the Inauguration of a J service Wshieh before long wnuld'prove 1 Indlxpcnsahlf in th.- hus llf of th Country. This plane, a bilge DoHavlland Four I with twelve Cylinder f-nRlne left Mln- I eola. T.. f.. ai 6:41 a. m. Wednesday, , Sept-niber 8. and arrU 'd In San Prqhclscq at 2:21 p. nr. Saturday 8e pjt ember 11 The tlm- II required for flu- flight was four days, srvon hours and forty-two minute. Vet. onlv ii few days previously a small automobile, also carrying the United States mail crossed the eontl-i eontl-i nent In four days, fourteen hours and i Cbrty-three mlnirtes only' seven hours I and one minute longer than the time required by the government airplane The aiitomohlle was only n four- aylinder machine! with a motor length ! over all of only twenty-nine Inches, j Whpn the fact is considered thai hc 12-' yhnder PeHavlland passed throuirb the air. encountering Virtually no Obstacle to uprpd and never onco bad : to think of the logal limits for traffic in scores of rlties. while the four cylinder motor car encountered the roughest roads for stretches of hundreds hun-dreds of miles, desert sand, high moun- tains, torturous grades, speed cops and l various other obstacles to fast traveling, trav-eling, the magnitude of its wonderful ', feat becomes apparent. Moreover the fact should also be I taken into consideration that the big I airplane traveled virtually In a straight ' line for the ntlro distance, while the I route of the motor car was much longer Figuring an even mileage for ' both land and air machines, first plai C ! would prohahly have gone to the- fonr-I fonr-I cylinder BSsgex car. |