Last week William P. MacCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aeronautics, announced that 23,310,355 miles had been flown by 1,536 commercial airplanes in the U. S. during 1926. His report included planes engaged in the mail service, passenger transport, exhibition flying, advertising, photography, crop dusting, etc. Adding the distance traveled by Army, Navy and Coast Guard planes, a total U. S. air mileage of 48,586,492 was recorded.
The confidence in aviation and the lust for adventure created by Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight, led airmen to predict a...
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