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From one of their central ports the distance round Cape Horn is estimated at 18,261 miles; whereas by the Mexican route it would be, to Guassacualco and overland to the Pacific, 2220 miles, and thence to the Columbia river, 2760 total, 4980; thus leaving the enormous difference of 13, 281 miles two-thirds of the distance, besides the advantage of a safer navigation.
When the storm burst her air fleet was not less than eight hundred airplanes, and at least twenty-five dirigibles. A competent authority estimates that at the outbreak of the war the various Powers possessed a total of 4980 aircraft of all sorts. This sounds like a colossal fleet, but by 1917 it was probably multiplied more than tenfold. Of the increase of aircraft we can judge only by guesswork.
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