Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-20
LINDBERGH:BEG|NS
7,O|lLM|LE FLIGHT
Miami-to- Santiago First Leg
of Air Mail inaugural,
Accompanied by Wife. !
BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, September 20,-Inau

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, September 2o,-Inau-
guration OF a 7OOO-nlle alrmall and
passenger service for Pan-American
Always over a west Indian route to
Dutch Guiana and through the Gen.
trail American countries lay before Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh today, as he point
ed the nose of tri-motored monoplane
toward Santiago, Cuba, the first over
night stop on the flight.
Sixteen different countries will be
visited on the 20-day flight, which will
be similar to, but retracing Of, the
goodwill trip Col. Lindbergh made q
year and a half ago. He is accompanied
by his wife, the former Anne Morrow,
and officials of the Pan-American Co.
Glenn H. CurtisS, pioneer aviation de-
veloper, was passenger to Havana, the
fist stop on today's flight. Two news
paper correspondents also will accom-
pany the party to San Juan, Porto Rico.
reception was arranged for Col.
Lindbergh and his wife at the airport
before the start of the flight, set for
$3.50 am.
In an interview before the start of
the flight, Col. Lindbergh expressed his
views on aviation of today and some of
the developments that probably will be
AAe'NS al IAAC AutuAC'
Small Planes Needed.
zone of the big things aviation
needs" he said, lis the development of
more small planes which can be oper-
ated by the novice more easily than
those of today. AS it is now, person
learning to fly is compelled to spend
too much time at the controls before he
can handle plane properly"
The aviator believes the autogyro has
emerged from its stage of infancy and
may prove a boon to aviation; that the
glider Is taking prominent part in the
development of aerinautics. Oil-burning
or Diesel motors, if developed properly,
he thinks, would do much toward bring
ing about more economical operation of
airplanes.
Col. Lindbergh said he did not believe
the flight starting today would be par
ticularly hazardous, despite the fact
that this is the usual season for tropi-
cal disturbances in the Caribbean Sea,
over which a large portion of the trip
lies
With multi-motored plane capable
OF returning to its base from any DOS
sible serious disturbance and a reliable
radio set aboard I do not consider this
flight dangerous one"
The itinerary for today's flight in
c1udes an hours stop at Havana at
about 1890 am, a 30-minute stop at
Camaguey, in the interior of Cuba. and
an overnight stop at Santiago, on the
eastern end of the island.
Virtually all of the 261-mile trip to
Havana is over water, while the flight
from Havana to Santiago, a distance of
about 500 miles, will take the party
over the Cuban sugar and tobacco
plantations.
To San Juan Tomorrow.
Tomorrow the route will lie from
Santiago to San Juan, a distance of ap-
proXimately 700 miles, with intermedi-
ate stops at Port Au Prince, Haiti and
San Domingo. Most of this portion of
the trip will be overland, with the ex-
ception of short water hops over the
WlndWard passage between Cuban and
Haiti and Mona Passage between the
Dominican Republic and Porto Rico.
After a stop at San Juan Saturday
night, Col Lindbergh will change to a
two-motored amphibian plane for the
long fight through the winward and
leeward islands to the Port Of Spain,
made. From there the route lies south
along the eastern shore Of South
America and Venezuela and up through
the Central American countries and
back to Havana and Miami.
Logs on the entire flight will be made
by regular communications every 80
minutes with the plane through
chain of % wireless radio stations.
Besides Col and Mrs. Lindbergh and
Mr.. Curtiss, those aboard the plane on
today's flight were Juan T. Trippe,
president of the Pan-American Co., and
Mrs. Trippe; Ed Musick, co-pilot; G.
N. Angus, radio operator. T. r. Gill Of
Jacksonville of the Association Press;
Sylvester Mcdowell, New York, the
United Press. and Charles D. Beeland,
Paramount Newsreel cameraman.