AMERICAN AIRMEN
MAUGHAN’R FINE FLIGHT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. (Received June 25, at 9.35 a.rii.) A demonstration was accorded Lieutenant Manghan on completing his flight from New York, which was without a parallel iu the history of local aviation. Uo made his landing shortly before 10 p.m. without mishap on a brilliant pathway, Inigo flares making the field almost .as light ns day. A Cheering mass of spectators broke through the' police line, and automobile horns shrieked, the whole producing a bedlam of noise. Maughan was lifted from the cockpit of his plane by cheering comrades of the Air Service, and carried off (lie field through a swirling crowd. The total time for tho trip was 21h 47min 45scc. Tho distance is 2,850 miles. Maughan made five slops—-'viz., at Dayton, vSt. Joseph, North Platte, Cheycnno, and Bald tiro. The time that, he was actually in flight was 18h 20mm.---Reuter,
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Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 4
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152AMERICAN AIRMEN Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 4
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