AERONAUTICS: Final Plans

The final tests of the six world-cruisers (TIME, Dec. 3) will begin early in March, and on April 2 the expedition will start from San Diego for Seattle, the first leg of the trip. From Seattle they will commence their 39,000-mile journey over the territories of 22 foreign countries. The route is divided into six main divisions: from Seattle to the tip of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in charge of Lieut. Clayton L. Bisnell; from Attu Island to Kamchatka, in charge of Lieut. Clifford C. Nutt; from Nagasaki, Japan, to Calcutta, in...

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