Los Angeles, June 7.
A crowd of 20,000 at Clover Field cheered Maj. Carl Cover, test pilot, and a crew of four as the world largest commercial Jand plane took off on its first flight today.
The Douglas DE-4 ship cost U.S$1,- 700,000, weighs 32% tons and carries 42 passengers. Maj. Cover, vice pre: ident of Douglas Aircraft Corporation, lifted the huge ship from the ground and circled over southern Califorma for an hour and a quarter. He later landed the ship at Burbank Union Air Terminal—United Press,
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