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...Round-trip fare: $180. Both planes are four-motored flying boats with similar speed and weight, but the Pan American Bermuda Clipper carries 28 passengers to the Imperial Cavalier's 16. The run takes 5 ½ hr. The Clipper leaves Long Island every Thursday, returns Sunday. The Cavalier leaves Long Island Saturday, returns Wednesday. Airmail is carried from Bermuda in the Cavalier. No airmail can be carried to Bermuda because the U. S. Post Office has not awarded a contract...
...Russians flying modified Boeings of a type long obsolete in the U. S. Russia has also bought one of the new Douglas flying boats and a Sikorsky amphibian. Russia has on order at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore a $1,000,000 flying boat of the China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, L. I., for two Seversky amphibians plus manufacturing rights. The Seversky amphibian holds the world amphibian speed record...
Meanwhile the Imperial Airways flying boat Cavalier, built by Short Brothers in England and powered by four Bristol .Pegasus motors, was reversing the route. Hampered by the winds which helped the Bermuda Clipper, it skimmed the waves at 1,000 ft., reached Port Washington in 5 hr. 49 min. after a brief detour to see the towers of Manhattan. The doggy blue uniform of the Cavalier's Captain William Neville Gumming, veteran of the trans-Mediterranean run, who stepped jauntily ashore carrying kid gloves at a rakish angle in his left hand (see cut, p. 52), brought quips from...
...plane was the Bermuda Clipper, a new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat powered by four Hornet motors and flown by a crack crew of eight Pan American employes headed by Captain Harold E. Gray, veteran of the Pacific and South American runs. Trundling up from Pan American's temporary base at Port Washington, L. I. at 9:32 a. m., it skirted the coast to Atlantic City, then bored out over the ocean at 10,000 ft. above a fringe of clouds. With a 20-m.p.h. tail wind and guided by a direction finder at Bermuda...
Next day the Cavalier flew back to Bermuda and the Bermuda Clipper flew to Baltimore to test the transatlantic air base now abuilding there. Passenger service is promised this month. Round-trip fare will probably be about twice that of a steamer ticket...