Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-09-06
A|R MAIL ROUTE
ESTABLISHED BY
POSTAL SERVICE
STARTS SEPT. 8
Trip from New York to San
Francisco Will Be Made
In Sc and One-Half Hours
rRepubIican a. p. Leased wire1

WASHINGTON. Sept. 5-Air mail
service between New York and San
Francisco will be inaugurated by the
postoffice department Wednesday, the
first planes leaving each terminus at
$50 a m. local time.
Complete plans and schedules for the
coast-to- coast service announced today
bv the department. show that the mail
planes from New York to San Francis
co are expected to make the trip in
fffty-six and one-half hours elapsed
time and the San Francisco to New
York planes in sixty and one-half
hours elapsed time Mail sent by train
from New York to San Francisco reach
es the latter city in about 100 hours,
and San Francisco mail arrives by train
in New York in about 96 hours.
The westward bound air mail under
the summer schedule viii leave New
York at 5 80 a. m. and arrive in Chica-
go at 2:30 d. m. and Iowa City at 4: 08
d. m Leaving Iowa City the next day
at ): 80 a. m, the mail will reach Omaha
at S:45 a. M. and Rock Springs, Wyo,
at 5:25 p. m. Leaving Rock Springs the
next morning at 80 a. m. on the last
lap, Reno is to be reached at 1880 p.
m. and the mail delivered to the San
Francisco postal authorities at 2 p. m.
Eastward mail under the summer
schedule will leave San francisco at
$50 a. M. arrive at Salt Lake at 2: 15
p. M and Rock Springs at 4:37 p. m.
The mail will leave Rock Springs the
next morning at $50 a. m. and reach
Iowa City at 6:zi p. m. The start on
the last lap from Iowa City Will be
made at $50 a. m. Chicago will be
reached at sos a. m. and the mail
turned over to the New York postal
authorities at p. m.
The winter schedules are similar ex
eept that starts from New York and
San Francisco will be made at $50 a.
m instead of $50 a. m. On westward
trims on the winter schedule. Chicago
instead of Iowa City, and Cheyenne in
stead of Rock Springs. will be the over
night stops Mail eastward bound in
winter will lay over night at Salt Lake
instead of Rock Springs, and at Chi
cago instead of Iowa City.
Use Metal Monopianes
Metal monoplanes with a cruising ra-
dius of ten hours at ninety miles an
hour will be operated between New
York and Omaha, with a single stop for
gassing at Chicago De Haviland-
Four planes with four hours fuel and
oil at eighty mites an hour VIII be used
between Omaha and San francisco.
Pointing out that inauguration OF
the new air service viii extend the air
mail service over 1863 miles of new
territory. the postoffice department in
it's announcement said:
with the establishment of the trans
service of the United States military
| forces what is probably the greatest
/ system of regularly maintained landing
fields and facilities in the world. sys-
tenn that will enable the movement of
air fleets from ocean to ocean with
large landing fields and fueling and re-
pair facilities approximately every 20C
| miles.
The trans continental daily air mail
| will be the most difficult flying project
| yet undertaken. Not only has 1T re-
| quired the working out of details for g
| daily operation of a route nearly 3,O0t
miles long, but the actual flying will be
under the most trying conditions. Al
/ Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Reno the
daily flying with a full load of mai
| will have to be at attitudes ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 feet above sea
| level and over high windswept plateau'
| with powerful head winds to cut dowr
the speed of the planes. Intense colo
weather will be encountered as we'll as
snow. and against these contingencies
! all advance preparations possible hav'
| been made. Powerful radio stations
for communication with the planes II
the mountain sections have been in
stalled at Reno. Salt Lake City, Chey-
enne and Omaha.