Coast to coast in 48 hours.

[Music] he gentlemen and Friends of Aviation who are witnessing this Motion Picture travel by train and airplane from California to the east or from the East to California is the modern achievement in transportation to save time to see America First and to enjoy the real fun of flying I recommend it to you and I am sure colon Lindberg who is Chairman of our technical committee and Mr CM Keys one of America's Pioneers in airplane transportation who are sitting here with me also recommended to you incidentally you'll see Colonel Lindberg in this picture making one of his regular inspection trips over the route which he helped to select for this great rail Airline and now just picture yourself taking this rail and of us for only a moment or two we are on our first hop to Indianapolis 180 Mi to the West less than 2 hours by air The Courier is looking after our comfort souvenir maps are spread before you you begin to look for familiar [Music] landmarks arriving at the airport at Indianapolis and at this same time at every Airport along the Route the teletype system reports the news on our progress here at the general office they read the flash of our arrival so through the day mile after mile our plane is watched reported on prepared for at our next stop which now will be St Louis 232 M away 2 hours later nearing St Louis we see the Missouri and Mississippi rivers joining into one then a long smooth Glide to a landing to another 15minute pause in our journey Westward we are taking this trip in the wintertime as a matter of fact it is 8 Below Zero as most of these scenes are made but modern air travel is a yearr round accomplished fact and airliners nowadays are as snug and comfortable as your own private yacht here at St Louis you step out again for a stroll around while the motors are being inspected and additional fuel is put aboard these motors incidentally are looked after as carefully as a fine watch and after being in use for a specified number of hours each motor is completely overhauled by a core of experts working under the supervision of Colonel limber as technical adviser to the airline Colonel Lindberg has instilled his own insistence upon perfect Motor Performance overhauling and frequent Replacements which from his experience is the way to safety and flying [Music] w St Louis to Kansas City Missouri 227 mil you'll be there in 2 hours and 29 minutes in the meantime stroll to the forward cockpit of your plane and take a look at the Pilot's weather report an army of trained observers compile these records making observations daily and hourly over the entire line here and OB OB server is following the course of a gas- filled balloon to determine wind direction and velocity at varying altitude these and other hourly observations are condensed into at its convenient airport then on to witchar Kansas 173 miles as the crow flies [Music] we are flying exactly on schedule we'll arrive witch on time what is the surface wind at Witchita the surface wind at Witchita is east Southeast 8 mph oh say bill lindberg's on the line he ought to be passing your ship about now lindur is making an inspection trip of the line today fine we'll watch for him good news about Lindberg we'll be looking for him okay goodbye Hey Joe they're making pictures up here today we're in the movies now boy so long this radio communication is one of the greatest factors of safety in modern air travel and now Colonel Lindberg on a coast to coast inspection of the line passes our shipping in midair he throttles down to look things over that's the Colonel's office he's riding in you're seeing Colonel Lindberg on the job at [Music] work and now we are coming to witcha where there are so many airplane factories the words Fly Away witchar will soon be almost as well known as fob Detroit then on the last lap of our first days flying we see what smart Western Farmers plant for Farm relief a swarm of oil dercks cover the landscape we are in Oklahoma now we have traveled almost 1,000 Miles by air as the sun s sinks down into the West an arrow car whisks us to town where an appetizing dinner awaits [Music] now again it is night time and you asleep aboard the Santa Fe Railway morning find us in Clovis New Mexico where another plane with new pilots and a new kind of [Music] 191 mil of Scenic Beauty we arrive at the City of Albuquerque New Mexico you're in Indian Country now and awaiting you at the airport is a delegation of 100% Americans keenly interested in air travel and air Travelers they gathered here to S you some of their native handiwork [Music] and after you have attended to your shopping and while the ship is being refueled and inspected chief typico of the local Drive brings a future young brave for a look at white man's latest surprise squa and papoo too are included in this personally conducted tour and if you should ask the chief what the Indian name for airplane is he will tell you o GW which means wagon like a bird [Music] leaving aluer on a 240 mile hop to Winslow Arizona we fly over the Mesa giganti then on through a bank of silvery CL round the tops of the San Mato mountains now certainly you are coming to Country worth writing home about next The Painted Desert swims into view with colors of violet Amber and RADS to the north the Petrified Forest of Arizona to the South the Apache Indians favorite hunting grounds here also was the hunting ground of Billy the Kid that famous Bandit of the Wild and Woolly West your next stop will be Kingman Arizona 186 mil on the map just an hour and a half to you on one of the many souvenir postcards of your trip is a picture of the famous meteor crater we are coming to it now a mighty ho 3 mil in circumference which scientists tell us was made by a falling star at the bottom we can see the Huts of the geologists who are digging down to the treasures which they say this meteor [Music] contains then with a suddenness that Thrills great chasms and canyons flash into view a ruggedness and a beauty which only air Travelers are privileged to see this is the famous Le canion you've heard about a pair of binoculars brings into view its giant fingers of very colored Stone like a mighty pipe organ in a Cathedral of the Gods [Music] we're leaving Kingman Arizona now for the last hop of our trip from coast to coast 300 miles to the city of Los angl we will have crossed the country in less than 48 [Music] hours passing over the Colorado River which forms the dividing line of three states in the bend of this River we can see a part of Arizona Nevada and [Music] California then a vast stretch of desert lies before us the devil's collar button in the Mojave Desert of California Death Valley lies 60 Mi to the north these are the lands over which the Pioneers struggled in their covered wagons where once it took weeks and months to cross this vast expanse we are now winging our way across little more than an hour's comfortable [Music] flight we are nearing last anglish now but a great range of mountains separates you from your first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean passing over the last of these mountains you see the famous Observatory on top of Mount Wilson next you will see orange roll then sunset on the Pacific and the city of Los Angeles you are nearing the end of your trip and so [Music] oh [Music]