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...Chungking reported last week that Soviet dilatoriness had "much affected" the feasibility of the landing. That was a diplomatic way of saying that Chinese Communists had surrounded Changchun airfield...
Going Home. The U.S. flyers broke all records for such operations. The bright autumn sky over ancient Peiping drummed with the 20th-Century roar of twin-engined aircraft as the planes swept down on the airfield, hour after hour. They disgorged their human cargo, taxied to gas pumps manned by Hopeh coolies, hopped off and were on their way south again within 50 minutes...
Colonel Hubbard's plan calls for two main bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...
...commercial U.S. planes have yet tested the "over the roof" route from the U.S. to Japan. Last week, three U.S. Army B-29s did it for them, made it look ridiculously easy. The planes took off from an airfield on the island of Hokkaido, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, and headed for Washington, D.C. Heavily loaded with 10,000 gallons of gasoline apiece, they hoped to make the trip in one hop. As they swept past Kamchatka, Russian fliers did acrobatics around them. Over Fairbanks, Alaska, when the outside temperature fell to 20 below, the crews idled about...
...Yenan flocked to the airfield to see nervous Mao Tse-tung take off for his unity conference with Chiang Kaishek. U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley had flown up from Chungking the night before (with two cases of Scotch) to escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed his young wife goodbye with the quiet desperation of a man going to be executed. Then he climbed aboard for the first plane ride of his 52 years, his first meeting with the Generalissimo in two decades of civil strife...