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Ad Rodgers.

The following is the official log of Calbraith Perry Rodgers' sea to sea aeroplane flight from the Atlantic tothe Pacific, as shown by the train despatchers' sheets of the Erie, Alton, "Katy", Sunset and Southern Pacific Lines. Every station agent and tower man reported the Vin Fiz Flyer as though it were a special train. Howard F. Benell, Superintendent of Transportation for Armour & Co., at Omaha, has been in charge of the special train ever since it left New York, and to him is largely due the success of the trip.

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Left. | Arrived.

Sept. 17 Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. 4:18 P.M. | Middletown, N.Y. 6:03 P.M.
104 miles. | 105 minutes.

" [[ditto for Sept.]] 18 Wrecked (Fell 45 feet and wrecked machine completely) |

" [[ditto for Sept.]] 21 Middletown, N.Y. 2:33 P.M | Hancock, N.Y. 4:03 P.M.
96 miles. | 78 minutes.
Wrecked skids. |

" [[ditto for Sept.]] 22 Hancock, N.Y. 11:30 A.M. | Elmira, N.Y. 5:30 P.M.
215 miles. | 246 minutes.
(Rodgers lost his route and went to Scranton, 104 miles out of his way, Made stops at Great Bend & Binghamton.) |

" [[ditto for Sept.]] 23 Elmira, N.Y. 2:10 P.M. | Canisteo, N.Y. 3:27 P.M.
149 miles. | 167 minutes.
(Rodgers made a wonderful flight and smashed up skids and a left warping wing in making a landing. His four magneto plugs came out, and he held them in for 12 miles. flying with one hand. He veloplaned for two miles and came down from an altitude of 2600 feet.) |

" [[ditto for Sept.]] 24 Canesteo, N.Y. 10:24 A.M. | Red House,N.Y. 2:15 P.M.
89 miles. | 145 minutes.
(Rodgers came down on an Indian reservation because a magneto plug was loose and he was afraid of an accident in the air. He made three attempts to leave the ground, at the last one going through two wire fences and completely wrecking the machine. This was the second time it was rebuilt. It was towed back to Salamanca, N.Y., and three days spent in rebuilding.) |

" [[ditto for Sept.]] 28 Salamanca, N.Y. 9:35 A.M. | Kent, Ohio., 5:30 P.M.
203 miles | 210 minutes.

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