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...triumphal day was somewhat marred by the wreck of a Pan American-Grace Airways transport which occurred in the sea off Panama four days earlier, snuffing out 14 lives (TIME, Aug. 9). Pan American spokesmen hastened to point out that the wrecked plane was not one of the famed Clippers, which are flying boats, but an amphibian; and that Pan American and Pan American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last year when a Clipper...
...Sikorsky 543 transport of Pan-American-Grace Airways, carrying n passengers and crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
...Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices of the Pan American Airways. Gleefully they stepped inside, ordered two tickets to China on next day's China Clipper...
Completing their first round-trip survey flights preliminary to regular transatlantic service, Pan American Airways' Clipper III and Imperial Airways' Caledonia passed each other one day last week high above the tossing wastes of the Atlantic Ocean. Both big flying boats were maintaining constant radio contact with British stations in Newfoundland and Ireland and Pan American bases in New Brunswick and New York. Few hours later the flights ended uneventfully. The Caledonia landed at Foynes in Ireland, continued to Southampton. The Clipper III landed at Botwood, Newfoundland, continued to Port Washington...
...mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets...