Governor John H. Trumbull, of Connecticut, required two planes to fly from his home in Plainville, Conn., to New York City. The first damaged a wing but not the occupants in landing; the second flew him safely to Mitchel Field, one of Manhattan's airport approximates.
Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, landed in Washington after 11,905 miles by airplane. He made 48 hops, inspected army posts in North and West. Whimsically he christened his plane The Spirit of Unrest.
A middle-aged woman, smiling, stepped out of a plane at Le Bourget...
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