The border vidette., 1929-08-03
AIR MAIL SERVICE ,NAueuRATeo
Mondays Herald)

and Mexico City a Ryan broug.
ham monoplane took off from
the Nogales, Arizona, airport
this morning on the first leg of q
flight to Mexico City, carrying
the first sack of mail for the
Latin America Air Transport
company. The trip is expected
to take 48 hours. The plane was
piloted by Capt. William Frye.
| A mechanic was the only pass
enger. No passengers will be
carried the first week of opera
tion, it was announced. The
plane left here shortly after ZOO
o'clock q. M.
At the same time the plane
took eff frem here plane took
off from Mexico City for Nogales
and another from Mexico City to
Guatemala.
Planes will now leave Nogales
regularly at z q. NJ. twice week
~ on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Their destination will be Mexico
City and Tijuana.
Nogales is the hub of the great
airmail route with planes com
ing and going from practically
all directions. The Latin, Amer
ican lines will eventually have q
fleet of 20 planes for the present
route. Six planes have been
purchased during the past week,
according to Ted Schlueter Of
Los Angeles, Pacific Coast re
preventative of the Ryan Air
craft corporations, builders of
the Spirit of st. Louis"
Three of the six planes have
already been delivered at No
gales and three more will be de-
livered this week. The new
planes are the latest type Ryan
brougham cabin models equip
ped with Wright Whirlwind mo
tors known as the J6 800 horse
power.
The speed which will be main:
tanned on the Nogales- Mexico
City run will be the cruising
speed ranging from 115 to 125
miles per hour. The planes are
capable of doing 14O miles per
hour if necessary.
Captain William Frye was the
pilot of the first regularly sched.
uled fight from Nogales to Mex.
leo City. He was accompanied
by mechanic. Five stops will
be made between Nogales and
Mazatlan. The stops include
Hermosillo, Guaymas, Ciudad
Obregon and Culiacan.
The regular schedule calls for
take off from Nogales, Arizona,
at z a. M, arriving at Mazatlan
the same day at 2:30 p. m. 1t
will take off from Mazatlan at z
q. N. the following day and ar.
rive in Mexico City at 2:30 p. N.
the same day.
The planes leaving here for
Tijuana will connect with the
Pickwick lines at San Diego for
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Latin American route is
the longest airmail run on the
Western hemisphere. It extends
$500 miles from Nicaragua to
Tijuana, according to Schlueter.
Captain Daniel e. Ellis, super.
intendent of the Latin American
lines, spent ten months in Mex
leo preparatory to starting the
route. He plans to eventually
extend the route from Alaska to
Central America completely Gov.
ering the entire Pacific coast of
the continent. Captain Ellis left
here for Mexico City Saturday
on trial run. The present run
now requires eight planes and
16 pilots.
All pilots are on the run two
days and off two. They carry
regular transport licenses and
the majority of them are ex
army men. Four pilots will be
stationed in Nogales at all times.
| According to the officials of
the company the public is invit
ed to inspect the new planes at
the Nogales airport. At least
one plane will be on the field at
all. times.
Schlueter left here at noon to
day for Los Angeles.
Nogales-Two- story business
building will be erected on Grand