Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-15

..All aboard for the celestial car TO
Philadelphia! Going right up! Room
for one SQUAD! win arrive In the
heart Of the city Of Penn and Frank
lin in 90 minutes. Board.
That IL the call which will become
familiar to, Washingtonia after To-
morrow. The second regular airplane
service for passengers to be estab-
1lished In America viii begin business
tomorrow.
The first one began between Bos-
ton and New York two weeks ago,
hut It takes 3 hours and 20 minutes
for that I92-miIe trip. and the time
table is not convenient for q Boston
cotnmuter to reach Wall street by
the opening Of Change, while this
glorious ride from the Nations CAPT.
tai to the Nations birthplace takes
only an hour and q half, regardless
Of weather. The distance BY train ts
1855 miles, but AZ the bee Mics, and
as the airplane viii speed. II - only
12S miles.
I,eayine Hoover Field--in Arlington
opposite the Washington Speedway
at 8 o'clock daily, the plane will
reach the heart OF Philadelphia at
4:3O o'clOck--4wice AZ swift as any
train service. A bus leaves the Wash.
ington Hotel for the plane 90 minutes
before sailing time. Fare SIS, OF
round trip for $25. That includes
scenery such as only q Byrd tho mat.
ter how that is spelled has ever en-.
jOyed before.
TThe Washington- Philadeiphia planes
win be. mechanically like that -
which Condr. Byrd recently visited
the North Pole. They are operated
with three engines, any one OF which
alone would be able to keep the plane
afIoat TO a regular landing place. fl
case both of the others should be
out Of order, but all the engines are
Euaranfoed atallproof.
There will be thfills-bu no sense
or dizziness; beauty or = panoramic
world, but no seasickness. wonders
OF novel travel, but luxurious accom-
modations and no foughing u nor
any daredevil looping Of loops nor
trick riding. The day OF bicycle rae.
ing soon passed, and the machine
settled down to service: the breaknecls
racing OF automobiles around saucer
tracks does not represent automobile
usefulness now; nor does fancy tall
spinning or upside-dowll stunts char
acterize airpiane usefulness today.
The widest Of horses can be broken
to the ploW; so the heavier-than-aif
machine, which looks down upon
clouds and laughs at their tempting
pillows, can be yoked and made to
carry men and women and baggage
above mountains and over unbridged
rivers or oceans And ali the time.
while 1t Is. perchaiaoe, flying 4 mile
high, beyond the terrestrial vel Of
clouds, ct q speed Of nearly two miles
8 minute, men on earth may talk by
radio to the aviator they cannot see.
ana direct his course away from alos
Iproachin& nnweltonie Weathers
The weather need not bother passen-
gers shut within their Widowed
| pAlatial ear. No arctic clothes are ~.
nuirea, for the swishine, Icy wind Of
the 700-nile speed II shut on from
| nippltig them, unless they voluntarily
open their windows to sense the ex-
Itraofdinary experience. They will
look lii vain to discover any human
creatures WALKING upon the mundane
sphere beneath them unless iii great
crowds FOR looking straight down
upon pedestrian, he figure Ii 10
foreshoFte that it Is but b dot
and the dot erapsd.
III is often pointed out that Amer.
len where the airplane was Invented
/ has faRged behind Europe III utf1kz.
| ing Il for passenger travel. but khis
cannot Be said Of our air mail. which
was established FIRST between wash:
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