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Air fleet federation envisioned at Aero Club dinner
At the Aero club of America dinner in New York a federation of western hemisphere nations with a large air fleet for mutual defense was forecast. Guests included Vincent Astor, Barrett, Santos-Dumont, Curtiss, and Peary. Daniels urged strong naval air development and open sea exercises as a step toward wider aviation unity.
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New York
Robert E. Peary
Explorer
Peary
Americas
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
John Barrett
Henry A. Wise Wood
Naval Consulting Board
Senor Santos-Dumont
South America
Hemisphere
Senor Th Anassagasti
The
Aero Club of
Argentina
VF. A. Peret
Peru
Thomas A. Edison
Miller Reese Hutchinson
Orange
N. J
Edison
Themistocles
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
North
Admiral Peary
Portland
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Anero Club
Army and Navy Aviation Departments
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Great Lakes
Barrett
Pan- American Scientific Congress
Washington
Alan R. Hawley
Club
Navy
North Carolina