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AN AEROMARINE
RECORD
A new world’s record in aerial
transportation is announced in
the official report concerning
the operations of the giant fly
ing cruiser Santa Maria, which
was forwarded to the Bureau of
Aeronautics of the Navy Depart
ment by Aeromarine Airways of
New York.
The Santa Main is the largest
passenger carrying flying boat
in the world in daily operation,
it has accominodatien for 11 pas*
sengers, and a crew of four.
Since she was launched a lit
tie over a year ago she has flown
20,000 miles without a single ac
cident toiler passengers
The big flying cruiser is now
at Peoria, 111, ready to start on
the filial leg of an aerial circum
navigation of the Eastern sec
tion of the United States, which
when completed will aggregate
more than ten thousand miles.
I
The Santa Maria has already
flown from Cuba by way of New
York and Montreal, Buffalo.
Cleveland, Detroit and Chtcago
to Peoria, carrying eleven pss
sengers and their baggage.
The flight included a circum
navigation of the Great Lakes
She is now about to fly down
the Mississippi River to New Or
leans and thence to Vera. Cruz,
Mexico, here she will take part
in the aeronautical exposition, as
thelargesd craft of her kind in
the world.
Among her passengers on the
forthcoming flight will be Con
gressman F. C. Hicks, chai*man
of the House Committee on Aero
nautics, and a representa.ti ve of
the United States Army Air
Service.
The Santa Maria has two pull
man cabins with reclining chairs
for her passengers. She is equip
ped with two 400 horse power
Liberty motors, and has a spe<jd
of approximately one hundred
miles an hour, but generally
cruises at 80 miles an honr.
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