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The nation's business will henceforth have offices in the air. Just completed are two Curtiss Falcons; standard army planes for observation and attack. In the observer's cockpit are fixed folding desks. In them will be prepared or studied reports, speeches, while Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, and the Navy's Assistant Secretary for Aviation, Edward P. Warner, are winging their ways to keep appointments.

Airplanes on skis are just completed for the Canadian air mail. The pilots will thereby be able to alight on smooth snow or ice surfaces with sacks of Christmas mail. The same equipment is to be fitted to Commander Richard Byrd's three planes which are planned to circle the South Pole.

In London an American paid for $500 a reservation. He is the first prospective passenger for the British trans-Atlantic service, "proposed for April." The ships will hold 100; have eating, drinking, sleeping, even dancing facilities. They will make Manhattan and London 48 hour neighbors.

A 35-day sky cruise, 20 days to be spent wholly or partially in roaring airplanes, was announced, last week at London by the veteran cross-channel firm, Imperial Airways.

Fare for the cruise ("all expenses") 435 guineas ($2,222.00).

Air ports of call: Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Seville, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez, Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Tunis, Catania, Naples, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Marseille, Lyons.

Baggage allowance to each passenger: 225 pounds.*

Day of departure from London: Jan. 31, 1928.

One may risk one's life but not one's life insurance flying. To destroy the popular fallacy that normal policies do not insure against aviation accidents the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company queried 50 national underwriters. Forty-two have no clause in standard policy contracts eliminating liability from aeronautical activities. Four have special clauses eliminating such liability until the policy is one year old; paid. Four have similar clauses for two years.

*Ordinary European passengers are allowed but 20 kilograms (40 pounds).