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A Miami terminal was established in the Halcyon Hotel and advertised hours of flight departures were 10:00 A.M. from Miami and 3:00 P.M. from Bimini.

Modifications were made to the H-16 Boat to carry eleven passengers and a crew of two. The entire hull was painted to resemble a large fish and the plane was appropriately named "BIG FISH". The craft was a large biplane of 104 ft. span, gross weight of 11,000 lbs. and powered by two Liberty-12, 400 H.P. engines. It had a cruising speed of about 75 M.P.H. but was not capable of flying on one engine. The only navigation instrument was an unstable compass, with no fuel gauges nor radio. The first scheduled trip to North Bimini with passengers was made on February 24, 1920, with John Miller as first pilot and Page as mechanic and co-pilot. After a few initial flights pilot Miller was transferred to another location and Page was made Captain and pilot in charge. With very little previous flying experience, and some doubt of his ability to handle the job, Page went on to make quite a reputation for himself on this run. Without realising it at the time, Page was probably the FIRST aviator to pilot a scheduled aircraft carrying passengers from the United States over water to a foreign destination. Naturally, at that early attempt to conduct such an operation, there were frequent interruptions in schedules due to equipment and weather. However, the line was operated successfully for two full winter seasons, during which Page had numerous memorable experiences and was forced down on the ocean four times, but no one was ever lost or injured. Later trips were also scheduled to Nassau, Havana and New York, and Page also did some flying out of Port Washington over Long Island Sound.

In April, 1922 Page left Trans-Oceanic to return to the Curtiss Engineering Corporation, Garden City, Long Island as a draftsman, where he remained until March, 1926 when he left to join the Ordnance Engineering Corporation of Baldwin, Long Island as draftsman and designer. He remained there until September, 1926 when he again joined the Curtiss Engineering Corp. as Project

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