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820.7961 Dept. of Commerce Flight/3: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Bliss)86

Washington, January 7, 1928—8 p.m.

1. The Department of Commerce states that arrangements have been made to send two American built airplanes, one a Curtiss-Hawk equipped with pontoons and the other a Curtiss-Falcon, to South America on an experimental and path finding flight. These planes will be under the supervision of Mr. James D. Summers, Aeronautical Trade Commissioner of the Department of Commerce for Latin America, and in direct charge of Mr. C. W. Webster. In the party will also be Lieutenant James Doolittle, an Army pilot on leave, William H. McMullen, a civilian pilot, and Mr. J. A. Todhunter, a mechanic.

Please request permission for flight in Argentina. The expedition plans also to visit Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil.

Kellogg
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to the missions in Bolivia (No. 1), Chile (No. 3), and Uruguay (No. 1).↩