Evening star., 1930-12-07
THE National Capital, a year ago
one of the most inactive large
cities in the country from an

one OF the most inactive large
cities in the country from an
Il aviation standpoint, now finds
itself an aeronautical beehive with
few superiors.
The beginning of the new year will
find A mail and passenger planes of
at least seven different types, mcst of
them multi-motored. operating in and
out Of this city every "a hours on reg
ular schedule. There probably will be
additions to this number early in the
year.
Coupled with military and unsched-
uled civil operations, the National
Capitals daily average of airplane ar
rivals and departures probably will be
well in excess of 60. During the Sum-
mer months, when miscellaneous flying
Is at its peak. it is anticipated that in
the neighborhood of rs planes will
come and go each "a hours.
Eastern Air Transport, operating
contract airmail service between New
York and Miami, feeling the effects of
the new Watres airmail act, is Begin
ming a notable expansion of service
which will double its daily flying mile
age, provide passenger service over its
entire system, make possible day as
well as night mail schedules and in
augurate an entirely new seacoast mail
and passenger line joining its present
route at Richmond, Va, and Jackson
vile, Fla.
Worlds Heaviest Air Traffic.
When its program is completed this
line will be operating on basis of IA
flights day between Washington and
New York, a day between Washing
ton and Atlanta, 4 between Atlanta
and Miami and 2 over the new coastal
route. Added to the schedules of the
New York. Philadelphia and Washing
ton Airways Corporation, this will mean
"a flights a day between Washington
and New York on regular schedule,
which it is believed, is heavier by far
than the traffic on any other airway in
the world.
Establishment of the Eastern Air
Transport daylight schedule between
this city and New York will make pos
sible the execution of a plan now being
considered by Postmaster General Wal
ter F. Brown for a fast special mail
service between the two cities which will
permit the sending of letter and re-
ceiving a reply between. the two cities
during the course of a single business
day. Letters mailed here as late as
noon or l pm. would be delivered in
New York before close of business
under this plan. The mail would be
flown under a special stamp combining
airmail and special delivery services.
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operating agreement reached during the
week between Eastern Air Transport
and American Airways, the operating
subsidiary of the Aviation CORPORATION,
which will permit coordination of
schedules involving 80 900 miles of fly
ing daily. This will, in effect, provide
q UNIFIED air system extending through
the National Capital from New Eng
land and Canada to Atlanta, where it
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tending across the Gulf States and
Southwest to the Pacific Coast, the other
extending to Miami and there connecting
with the giant Pan-American system
connecting all the West Indies, Central
America and South America.
Longest Sea Schedule Begins.
One OF the most interesting of the
recent aviation developments is the in
auguration during the past week of
the worlds longest unbrolSen overseas
scheduled air transport line, a 73T-mile
hop from Kingston, Jamaica, to Cristo-
bal. Panama Canal Zone. The long
ocean hop is part of the regular serv-
ice from Miami to Panama, a distance
OF 1885 miles, OF which 1875 miles is
over water.
The long flight, now being made twice
a week in both directions, is to serve
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tract airman service to the Canal Zone
and South America, but also as a prov
ing ground for future transatlantic air.
mail service, for which the Post Office
Department is to ask bids on Decem-
Der 20 The airmail definitely is TAX
ing to the seaways.
Service on the long oversee line be-
gan Tuesday, whsn one of the big
Pan-American Airways 22-passenger
Commodore flying boats took of from
Miami at pm. bound for Panama.
Edwin Schultz, one of the country's
most experienced commercial flying
boat pilots, was at the controls when
the big boat lifted from BiScayne Bay
and nosed toward Cuba, according to
a report received here With Schultz
were a co-pilot, a radio operator and
steward. No PASSENGERS are to be
carried until the service has settled into
its stride.
The night was passed in Cienfuegos,
on the southern coast of Cuba where
the plane landed at sis pm. The hop
TO Kingston, distance of 448 miles
over water, started at $50 am. We'd
nesday and the big boat landed in
Jamaican waters at 10 am.
The final leg of the fight, for 674
miles Of which the plane was entirely
out OF sight of land, started at 1O:30
am. and ended at Cristobal at $50 D m,
just 26 hours out of Miami, including
the overnight stop at Cienfuegos.
While Schultz was flying south. Basil
Rowe, chief pilot of the marine division
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