6,000 Miles

Six U. S. Army airplanes completed a 6,000-mile flight, begun on March 3 at Kelly Field, San Antonio, covering Havana, Port au Prince, Santo Domingo, and ending at Bolling Field, Washington.

According to Secretary of War Weeks, the flight had a great military importance. It proved that with two days' warning the Air Service could concentrate in Porto Rico an air fleet which would effectively protect the Panama Canal against attack by any enemy fleet approaching it from the Atlantic.