Faster, Faster

The night-flying transcontinental airmail got under way last week. On the new schedule, letters posted on either coast one evening are delivered at the opposite coast two mornings (about 32 hours) later. This has been made feasible by floodlighting the route's western terminus, Oakland Municipal Airport. Until the Rockies were flown at night, the shortest airmail trip across the continent was performed in one day, one night, one day. Now it is done in one night, one day, one night--saving one business day.