Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-06
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COAST TO COAST
Service will Be Inaugurated
Wednesday Between n, Y,
and San. Francisco Post
office, Department Says,
COMPLETE PLANS AND
SCHEDULES ARRANGED
Westbound Trip viii Be
Made in Be 12 Hours
Elapsed Timei 60 1-2
Hours for EaStbound Trip

(aY MORNING JOURNAL srsciAL LEASED wlRsl
Washington, Sept. 5.-Air ma'i
service between New York ana
San Francisco will be inaugurated
by the postoffice department
Wednesday, the first planes leaV-
ing each terminus at $3.50 a. m,
local time.
Complete plans and schedules for
the coast to coast service an
nounced today by the department,
show that the mail planes from
New york to San Francisco are
expected to make the trip in fifty
six and one-half hours, e.apsed
time. Mail sent by train from New
York to san Francisco reaches the
latter city in about 100 hours ana
san Francisco mail arrives by tram
in New York in about ninety-sx
hours.
, Westbound Schedule.
The westward bound air man
under the summer schedule will
leave New York at $3.50 a. m. ana
Iowa City at 4:0S p. m. LeaVlhe
Iowa city the next day $3.50 a. m,
the mail will reach Omaha at ga"
a m. and Rock Springs, Wyo., at
5.b2 n. m. Leaving ROCK SPRINGS
the next morning at $50 a. m. on
the last lap, Reno is to be reacheo
o+ 1o.20 n. m. and the mail dellV-
cred to the san Francisco authorl-
ties at p. m.
Easthound mail under the sum-
mer schedule will leave san ffal,-
cisco at $50 a. m, arrive az oa,'
Take city at 2:51 p. m. ana Roch
Springs at 4:37 p. m. The mail WI
leave Rock Springs the next MORN
;rg at s.30 a. m. and reach, iowa
Citv at 6:21 D. m. The start on tie
last Ian from Iowa City VIII pe
made at $50 a. m. Chicago VIII De
reached at sos a, m. ana the MAJ,
turned over to New YORK poStai
| authorities at 6 p. M
winter schedule.
The winter schedules are sllllilii
| oxoont that starts from New YORK
and san Francisco will be made at
q 40 a. m. intead of $3.50 a. M
on westward trips in winter
trims Chicago. instead of Iowa Guy
and cheyenne instead OF Ro'h
snrings will be overnight stops. Mail
eastward bound in winter VIII ias
over night at Salt Lake Clly IN
stead of Rock Springs and at CHI
| capo instead of Iowa City.
Metal monoplane with a cruis-
ing radius Of ten hours at ninety
miles an hour will be operated pc pc
tween New York and Omaha Win
a single stop for gassing at Chlcaso'
lDeHaviland-4 planes with ioul
hours fuel and oil at elghty NM NM
an hour will be used petweeA'
Omaha and San Francisco. eta,
tions between the two terminl WIN
be Cleveland, Chicago, iowa Gi.s'
omaha. North Platte, Neb., Cney-
enne, Rock Springs, Salt Lake ei's
and Elko, and Reno, New.
Plenty of Landing Fields.
Pointing out inauguration OF the
new service will extend the AR MAI
| service over 1,463 miles OF ne"
territory. the postoffice depart
ment in its announcement auueo
"With the establishment oil IN.
trans-continenatal mail there WI
be at the service of the ohi.eo
j states military forces what is prop
ab,v the greatest system OF regu,
lIarlv maintained landing fields aho
facilities in the world, a SYSTEM
tbat will enable the movement o.
air fleets from ocean to ocean WIZ, WIZ
large landing fields and fueiihs
and repair facilities approxiiha'ei'
every 200 miles. -, "a,
"The rans-continental daily an
mail will be the most difficult l.s
/ ing project yet undertaken. ~
onlv has It required the workihs
ont OF details for daily opera'ioi
of a route nearly 5000 miles long
, hut the actual flying VIII pe uhuel
tho most trying conditions.
, Cbeyenne, Salt Lake City ana heh'
tba daily flying with full load .
, mail will have to be at aitituae
! ranging from 10000 to $4,000 zee
, above sea level and over mig
/, w,nd-swept plateaus with powerfu
head winds to cut down the spec
Of the planes. Intense cold weathe
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