Operating Base Already Established at Portland and Boston—Plan System of Relay Planes—Tech Professor Sees Big Increase in Commercial Flying During Coming Year
Boston, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Announcement that the leading cities of New England will be linked in a air route next summer was made today at a joint meeting of the Aero Club of New England and the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. Operating centers already have been established in Boston and Portland, Maine, it was said, and negotiations are under way for connections at Hartford, Conn.
Under the plan passengers would be carried from any part of New England in the same type of planes; operators would not have to send their ships more than two hours from their home base; and passengers would not be delayed for refuelling en route.
Prof. Edward P. Warner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who presided, said that the year 1926 would see a great Increase in commercial flying in New England. A resolution was adopted urging the extension of the state lease of the Boston airport by 15 years and a state appropriation of $10,000 for runways maintenance at the airport this year.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, January 20, 1926