While listening to the strains of the Italian national anthem being played outside of his suite in the Copley-Plaza, Commander Francesco De Pinedo, Italian inter-continental aviator, gave an interview to the CRIMSON during his short stay in Boston.

"My new plane is a fine one," he said, speaking of the Santa Maria II, the plane sent from Italy to replace the one in which he flew across the South Atlantic and which was accidently burned at Roosevelt lake, Arizona. "I flew from New York to Boston without even giving it a trial flight. We simply assembled it and started on our way.

"I think that aviation has a great future," he continued. "Through airplanes, the world is going to advance even more than it has with the invention of the steam engine and electricity. The airplane will make everything move faster, and consequently faster progress. I believe that in a very few years airplane trips to Europe from America will not be considered unusual affairs. They will be made by business men and vacationers, and will be thought of as perfectly natural means of journeying. No doubt, within a few years, trips like I am now making will be common. People will be taking airplane trips around the world for pleasure."

Commander De Linedo has spent 5000 hours in the air and flown 500,000 miles in pursuit of glory and fortune, he said. He has spent the equivalent of 208 days above the earth. From Boston, he plans to fly to Philadelphia, then to Charleston, S. C., Pensacola, Fla., Memphis, Tenn, St. Louis, Chicago, Montreal and then to Newfoundland, from where he will take off for the Azores, Spain and back to Rome.