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...Trippe: "China Clipper, are you ready...
...step was to build bases. For this, Pan American last March chartered the 4,653-ton S. S. North Haven, sent her on a three-month expedition at a cost of $2,000,000 to establish airports at Midway, Wake and Guam. As each base was completed, the Sikorsky Clipper flew to it, tested its facilities to the limit (TIME, April 29, May 27, June 24, Sept. 2). Flawless as these flights have been, Pan American still regards its training incomplete, will not carry passengers until the whole route has been flown five times. Probable cost of one-way ticket...
...Cast Off!" Like a stone skipped by a giant hand, the China Clipper last week skittered in long hops across the Pacific. Biggest hop was the 2,400 miles to Honolulu, accomplished in the slow time of 21 hours because of head winds and the heavy load. So full of philatelic mail was the huge plane that her fittings had to be stripped and two crew members left behind to make room for 115,000 letters...
...Honolulu some of this cargo was distributed during the night's halt. More was added in the shape of mail, ice-cream, Thanksgiving dinners, odds & ends, and 14 Pan American employes to be carried to Midway and Wake. Off at dawn, the Clipper, loaded almost to capacity, flew on to Midway, landed within one minute of schedule in time for fishing, baseball in the afternoon. Next day, the ship lost a day by crossing the international date line to Wake for another night's layover before heading for Guam. Thus rested, the crew remained fresh as the long...
...They" told Sailor Roosevelt wrong: first clipper to reach San Francisco was the Samuel Russell in 1850. *Route: San Francisco: Macao; Hongkong; Fenang; Delhi; Bagdad; Cairo; Athens; Rome; Marseille; Seville: Tangier, Morocco; Dakar: Senegal: Natal: Brazil: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Miami; Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; San Francisco...