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...flies faster over Mother Earth. The actual night flying zone will extend only 1,460 miles between Cleveland and Rock Springs, Wyo., with 335 miles from Cleveland to Chicago, and 240 miles from Cheyenne to Rock Springs, illuminated only when the long days of Summer have disappeared. The illuminated airway, a marvel of engineering, has received the coöperation of the General Electric Co., the Sperry Gyroscope Co. and the American Gas Accumulator Co. The combined candle power of all the lighthouses and beacons will be 5,279,000,000. At the main lighting stations (Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha...
Shocking as an occasional disaster is, the margin of safety is large and increasing. And public confidence appears unshaken. The day after the accident 13 transport machines traveled over the same airway, carrying practically a full complement of 70 passengers...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, speedway and airway ace: " I told reporters in Atlanta that the demand for quicker transportation has ' made ' the automobile and will in turn make the flying machine. Also that I prefer airplane flying- ' There is less likelihood of accidents...