ACROSS AMERICA BY AIR.
Pillars of light 10.000 feet high will | guide the air mail planes across the , flat lands between Chicago and the ! Rockies, "lien the New York-Set; i Francisco route is instituted next | summer. » j They will form an integral part, of the first attempt at consistent night flying in times of peace. 1 The apparatus of these lighthouses of the nil* .staiuls only about four feel ltigh, but sends a shaft of light 10,000 feet into the sky. A system of alter ntiting flashes, similar to that of lightj houses along the const, "ill be instituted. At the buses of the beacons, t emergency landing places will' be i marked out. so that a flyer in trouble I will recognise the lights not only as guides, but us safe havens. The light i is furnished by acetylene gas. There are eight planes now in tin i air mail .service, flying 2000 miles a ! dnv. and currying a ton of mail every I il-iv except Sumluvs and holidays. |M ■
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 30 August 1920, Page 4
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