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jy\ inj vOtlb will riae in Ul« 01J OJ-pwwuicr, L»V t amyBill ^Mexico's Air Celebration Rescheduled On October 12BROWNSVILLE — When the Agullochoi’, famous 201st Mexican Army Air Force* Fighter Squad ron, went from Mexico City to the South Pacific, they went there to fjght on the ild# of th# demccra clei And fight they did, until their squadron hod put together b dlitlnKulahed and coloiful set vice tecorri and the war had been wonLittle we# it then realised what f#r-r etching influence their service and anociition* ultimately would have on International relationihipt* between the United State* and Mexico The war and winning it wai the all absorbing thought Bui friendship* understanding and brotherly love ever by products of men fighting side by ilde have reiulted in the finest aviation relu-tionship* in the hlitory of the two North American Republic*And it la eaiy enough to imagine that lomt of the veteran* of thla celebrated outfit exerted i bit of the old army heave ho on off I clol Mexico when that government extended an official Stnto Depml merit invitation to 600 000 tl S civ 11 plloU to visit their country in a maw flight u guest* of the government.Coordinated with Air DayTh# original invitation and the rwullant icheduled flight wai co ordinated with Air Day in Tex is at Harlingen when thousand* of vialtlng airmen were expected io be In the VAlley to attend one or both of these unparalleled aviation eveutiLater development* however foiced a postponement of the flight until Oct 12 according to David W Simpson chulrman of the Valley wide Din* Patrols Assisting com mlttee The U S Assisting committee was set up at the request of Senior Rodolfo Rubio Rojo consul of Mexico at Brownsville through whose office the official Invitation was channeled in the United States The purpose of the comcnit*ee is to expedite matter* north of the borderHeadquarters of the comm 11 ce at the Brownsville International Airport have announced that ar rangements are complete for Irnmi I ration and customs clearances at all the Rio Orande Valley airports from which Dias Patrio* flights will be dispatchedSafe Route DtslgnatedFiyjng Specialist WjHin n M Bu ry 4th Region Civil Aeronautic* ■dminl*lr»Uon, Fort Worth and Toma* de Leon, Aeronautic® Civil de Mexico, together with Leslie 3 Hablw. CAA inspector for th* Rio Grande Valley, are harmonizing their activities concerning rules and regulation* both on the ground and In the air with special emphasis on safety tnd precautionSolely for reasons of safety said Senor de Leon Mexican In apeclor the Aeronautic \ Civil has prescribed what 1* considers ’he safes, and clearest route from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to Mexico City1 Thi* «pprov*d route he added 'will take the visiting Dit* Patrlos tourist* over the Rio Grande at Brownsville over Malamoro* thence approximated due soulh where in * few minutes they will pick up the coast line and fly over Bahia Jesui Maria or Eighth Pass and follow th# const line on down over La Pesca Tampico to Tux pan From Tuxpnn the flight v. Ill tuin Inlimc over Tulnncingo nnd to Mexico Ci*| Member* of th* assisting commitlec po i led out til it no touise ol hi thm tint ct foith in the Mcxlu r ordcr should be Httcmptid by DJ Pninos flyers lhh thcv repeated is the safest course to Mexico City nnd i* th# route charted In the early days of aviation and pioneered by the first inter-American air lines
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Valley Morning Star
Harlingen, Texas, US
Sat, Sep 07, 1946
Page 24
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