THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
TRAIL-BLAZING CLIPPER, IN INAUGURAL PACIFIC
FLIGHT
This photo, takan in test flights, shows how the giant Pan-A merican Clipper will appear when she takes off to-day on a trail. blazing flight to Wake Island, third leg in the California-Orient airline service. The machine has already made two successful ocean flights-ons to Honolulu and the second to Midway Island. Later in the year it will fly to Manila and thence probably to Hongkong.
SPANNING THE PACIFIC
TWO YEARS' PLANNING BEHIND TO-DAY'S FLIGHT FROM AMERICA
With the start from California to-day of the Pan-American Airline's 19-ton plane "Oriental Clipper No. 5," for Wake Island, the ambitious and romantic project of an airway from the United States to the Far East be- comes nearer reality.
or better; hour
Nineteen-Ton Planes
the
which receiving sets to make audible the
of broadcasts long-wave regular type in addition to the code signals by which the air line is operated.
AUGUST 9, 1935.
Island, the commissariat is of formidable proportions, For
example, the inventory includes 2,500 pounds of frozen meats and a like quantity of smoked meats, 500 pounds of chicken, 700 of butter and 450 dozen eggs, with canned goods and dry groceries enough to Block a respectable chain store.
sive.
"I DEMAND JUSTICE"
VICAR SENT BACK
TO-PRISON
When Dr. Samuel Shannon, vicar of St. Luke's Church. Leicester, appeared in the charge of warders for his public examination at Lel- cester Bankruptcy Court, on July 17, be refused to take the oath and stated that he would decline to answer questions until he got Justice.
Dr. Shannon had been in Lel- cester Prison since June 19 on a warrant issued by the Registrar, Mr. C. Squire, following appearance for his public examina- ! tion.
non-
He told the Registrar that he did not defy the law and wished to make an explanation. He began to rend a statement when the Re- gistrar stopped him, saying:- "You have now been in prison 21 days. I should have thought you had obtained sufficient notoriety."
Lalor, the Registrar told Dr. Shannon that he was setting him- self above the law and that could not be allowed.
Dr. Shannon-I am not. 1 want Justice. This is an English Court of Law, and I demand justice.
Mr. Evan Barlow, the official Receiver, began to put questions to Dr. Shannon, but he refused
answer,
to
When told that he would appear before Judge Haydon on Monday. Dr. Shannon said that he would not answer questions then.
He was taken back to Leicester Prison by taxi, and waved a smiling good-bye to parishioners as he left the Court.
STUDENTS' TRAINING
GRAND REVIEW FOLLOWS THREE WEEKS' COURSE
Canton. Aug. 8.
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The heavy items of cargo for students. the airway bases are also impres-schonis in the city took place at They include such items as Yintang yesterday as a termination plants, radio poles, piling for ing. Diesel engines for the power of their three weeks' military train-To you, during the Summer "General Chan Chai-tong who took | Months, Yardley Lavender wil docks, cross braces, flooring, rails, braces, stringers, gangplank irana, the reviewing stand made a speech bring Spring-lika freshness. flood lights and 1,000-gallon fuel encouraging the students.
Then there are lighted Other prominent offleials present tanks.
were General Yu Han-now, General
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screening, nails and tools, com- Chang-fu-Central Prean.
It is a modification of the Adcock type of direction finder and on the Pacific airway will occupy a plant by itself at each base with a fixed loop mounted on four high poles. On the aeroplane a mast on the
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Planning for the project has been in progress for more than two buoys, length of chuin, kedge years; the heterogeny of materials and supplies necessary to establish air-anchors, car wheels and tans of ports on uninhabited islands has been reduced to methodical lists; a tech-assorted cable and wire; paints, nical committee, headed by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, has collaborat-prising complete kits for carpen-
sailmakers, cobblers, plumbers finding system has shown consis- ed with aircraft builders to secure giant flying boats with a range of 3,000 ter machinists, ditch diggers,
nasorted specialized tently under test a range up to ather
1,800 miles. miles and more with load; and a marine personnel has been trained for and
Thus, Pan-occupations.
Blind Flying The game assortment, to while more than 18 months in the laboratory of the Caribbean. American Airways, which is undertaking the venture, put the first major away time between the coming and going of the soaring clipper ships, is wide one. The lists include trans-ocean airline into being.
baseball, medicine ball and volley ball equipment, jig saw puzzles, SOME time this autumn passeng picturesque undertaking ers will be able to take wing was begun last month.
checkers, chess, ping pong sets, at San Francisco or San Diego and
New Pacific Airports
prow carries four wires which act Kloves, reach Canton, or Hongkong inj
The bases built at Midway and
tennis balls, dominoes and boxing
And it is evident that the lines a loop. In test Pan-American about four days. By steamer they;
The list of canteen supplies expects its base staffs to go in for pilots have been able to fly entirely blind with the aid of the Ander require some three weeks at best. Wake Islands are typical of the
with astonishing degree of They will fly some 8,500 miles and chain. At each, in the landing make five stops en route; at Ha- lagoon, are a landing float and a (directed to the airport engineer, gardening also in a big way for To the the work sheet meticulously notes) the list of seeds to go ashore in- waii, Midway Island, Wilkes Island dock leading to the shore.
right, as one Koes ashore,
are for Wake Island is worthy of re- cludes Royal Palm, Cocoanut Palm, accuracy.
Not merely the development of entirety. It Papaya, beets, cabbage, beans, in the Wake Island group, fuam underground fuel, atorage tanks; production in its
celery, cucumber, instruments for air bases and for and the Philippines.
beyond them a power house and reads: 110,000 cigarettes, 500 bags cauliflower,
okra, onions, pens, planes has been involved in the This journey, which even in this still beyond a building for the of cigarette tobacco, 10 pounds lettuce,
radio transmitter. To the left, but chewing tobacco, 578 cans smoking radishes, squash, tomatoes and, establishment of an 8,600-mile air. or not, way across the world's broadest age of flying still seems incredible, at a greater distance, is the trans- tobacco, 50 cartons chewing gum, whether they like it
waters. Years of pioneering work on the part of the air line in many they will accomplish in four-mitting station of the radio direr- 60 packages pipe cleaners, 100 spinach.
cartons five-cent candles, 65 pack-
Schedules To Be Tested
other directions underlie the actual engined flying boats; Clipper ships; tion finder.
oges razor blades, 14 dozen of the air, capable of cruising at
Walking up the roadway toward shaving brushes, 4 dozen tooth
Flying schedules for the im-construction and operating steps
which are now imminent. 150 miles f
mense airline will not be worked luxuriously fitted with berths and the main base one sees head brushes, 12 dozen tubes tooth
When. It was first decided to of white-painted frame paste, 6 dozen cans talcum powder,
airway
the electric kitchens; carrying group alewards as well as a flight crew buildings on concrete bases. The 4 dozen cans foot ease, dozen out until after many experimental
however, that once these schedules Caribbean, famous for the uncer of five and guided by radio direct on the right is the radio re hair brushes, 4 dozen combs, erans have been made. It is hoped, operate an
Pan- tion finders with a range of 1,800 reiving station, with the oflice of dozen tubes cold cream.
have been put in operation they tainties of weather, many experi- the airport opposite it. Then, miles.
further along and arranged about Also 24 dozen jars sunburn may be maintained with something enced aviation men scoffed.
intensively. however, and its a central circle are stall quarters, cream, 10 dozen cans shoe polish, of a clock-like regularlty which American had studied the problem the airport manager's house and 2 dozen shoe brushes, 5 dozen has marked the performance of the
the Caribbean considered Planes of two types, at for this quarters for the crews of visiting boxes writing paper, 8 dozen cover line's operations in the field officials, as they said at the time. epic journey, have been proved in aircraft Off to the right, outside alls, dozen penholders, 6 dozen the West Indies and Central and merely a sea with ports which the air. The Sikorsky S-12 type. the circle. is a kitchen, mess hall pens, 24 dozen handkerchiefs, 60 South Amerlen. This operation needed an air service but an ideal 21 dozen now extends to 32,000 miles and laboratory for the special problems the first to fly. The and servants' quarters.
dozen assorted button. Brazilian Clipper, set ten world's At each of the bases the normal pools thread, 16 dozen spools Herves 33 countries and colonies. of over-water flying.
Such a laboratory it has proved. records for seaplane speed with!
airport darning cotton, 30 dozen needlea, Over a five-year period it has dozen safety plna, 10 dozen shown a completion of scheduled load, is a craft of 18 tons, fully stuff will comprise an
manager, a radio officer and his 24
three years the pilots and co-pliots, loaded.
assistants, a chief mechanic and paper pins, 2 dozen pairs scissors, runs of something ever 99 per Week in and week out for nearly Perfection of new radio aids the radio men and base staffs of The second ship of this class, two mechanie's helpers and Ave 20 dozen pairs shoelaces, 6 dozen cent. called Pan-American Clipper, his men in service staff; cook, steward, bottles after-shaving lotion,
of the big flying boats in the solving those problems over a 600- been fitted as a flight training mess boy and two cabin boys. At dozen collar buttona, 5 dozen will greatly assist the operation the line have been meeting and laboratory and used for specialized Wilkes Island, long a mere empty carton ink.
For the kitchens and mesa halls Pacific. Of these the short-wave mile stretch of sometimes difficult ocean training for marine person dot in tho wide Pacific, tho there are, of course, full comple direction-finder developed by the nel in the Atlantic between Miami resident staff will be augmented by ments of cooking utensils, table line's engineers is considered the Whereas the and Puerto Rico. This is the type la doctor. which has become the first flying The compiled list of materials crockery and flatware, oil ranges, must important.
directional radio beam on land is boat to be used over the now air ordered by the air line's engineer- electric refrigerators and water sometimes limited by bad condi-
ing department to construct and
tlons to a range as low as 30 miles way to the Orient.
ft these bases reads a bit like- Formidable Commissariat
-100 miles being about normal With the surplus tankage with the catalogue of a sizable mail-
and Anders using a 'diamond-shape which it is now fitted, this craft
For one of the way stations of movable loop have about a 600-mile can sleep, only three of its flight forder concern,
It includes not merely the pruc- the far-flung airway, like Midway range, the new short-wave direction Its fuel margin fa 60 tical material to house, feed and crew of six. groat, however, that three out of maintain a self-sustaining little Its four normal passenger com community where before only the partments could be used to give sea birds have wheeled and mewed, comfortable accommodations for but also things to satisfy the needs 12 passengers and still leave ample of the spirit of men lying far in fuel capacity for the longest over the expanse of the greatest soa. water hop of the Pacific journey, There are books. The standard that from San Diego to Honolulu, supply for each base includes the about 2,000 miles.
late Dr. Eliot's famous five-foot The other type of huge flying aholf-the Harvard Classics, the , beat which has also had its first Bible and the World Almanac, but flight teste, bhe Martin Clipper, in each case hobbies of the men to Is still larger, weighing 51,000 occupy the stations have been con pounds gross. It will have a sulted-reading hobbies, that is to 8,000-mile range with 20 passengers say and specialized books on
engineering, radio and and cargo.
solences will be supplied.
of which
Before either type of these swift' flying boats can take the air In Paclic waters, however, an airway must be prepared. This is the
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There are also cards, games of Radio beacons will guide the Oriental Clipper across the Pacific. The map other sorts and, of course, radio
shows the projected route for the trauu-oceanic services.
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Links In Far East When the airway goes into operation, there will be but one short link, along the Chinese const, which cannot as yet be flown in scheduled air service around the world, Should, a modern Nellie Bly elect to make a trip by airline. after this service ia in effect, she on the now could fly the Pacifie airway, take plane again in French Indo-China or Singapore, fly to Europe by French, Dutch or British lines; then fly the South Atlantic with the mails, having frst flown to the West African const; come by wing up the east coast of South America with Pan-American; hop from Miami to New York by Eastern Air and then close the circle by flying across the United States on United. T.W.A. or American Airlines.
The initial training flights over the Atlantic from Miami with the Pan-American Clipper proved suc- cessful from the outset. The scro- plane Itself was, of course, a vast improvement as to speed and load. over anything previously coh- structed for ocean flying.
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