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Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of gales on the course east to Copenhagen, where the flyers were about to complete their survey of a subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over...
Northeastern Passage. There was small need for public guesswork when a red Bellanca seaplane popped up in Greenland one day last week. Although everyone was astonished that a plane could fly there from Detroit unnoticed, the news that Parker ("Shorty") Cramer was the pilot was a sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell...
Pertinacious Honduran-Repeatedly balked from a New York-Honduras flight by his superior officers, by revolution, Captain Lisandro Garay of the Honduran Air Force last week at Floyd Bennett Field loaded a Bellanca monoplane with 360 gal. gasoline and Bert Acosta "to make a test flight." Unseen Supercargo Acosta sneaked away; Captain Garay took off, headed for Tegucigalpa, reprimand, glory, or death...
...York-Istanbul Big-framed Russell N. Boardman, onetime cowboy, motorcyclist and wingwalker, and small John L. Polando, onetime garage mechanic, pulled the Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod up from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and struck the well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward...
...York-New York? Seventeen minutes after the Cape Cod took off, another Bellanca monoplane chased after her from the same field, the Miss Veedol, manned by Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn. They thought they could beat the eight-day record of Post & Gatty around the world. Their plane was much slower than the bulletlike Winnie Mae but it had a longer cruising range, and Herndon & Pangborn could take turns at the controls whereas Pilot Post was obliged to fly without relief. They gained time by cutting short their stops, but unscheduled landings put the Miss Veedol...