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Undoubtedly the Duke would have preferred to fly over on a Clipper, but the Duchess is always firm in saying: "I don't like to fly." The first of her three husbands was a U. S. Navy flier, and Mrs. Wallis Spencer undoubtedly saw and heard of enough deadly crashes to make her hate aircraft as much as she hates cats. Says she: "I pray that trains will never stop running...
...Taylor, week after she landed in New York on the S. S. Manhattan, flew back to him by Clipper. Early this week he was given a blood transfusion, rushed to Rome for an operation...
...disaster struck the first commercial flight just out of Pago Pago when Pan Am's No. 1 pilot, weather-beaten Ed Musick, dumped gasoline for a forced landing, burned up his Samoan Clipper with all hands (no passengers were carried). To resume service Pan Am had to apply for a new certificate, in the meantime (last August) made another exploration run via Canton Island and Noumea with a new Boeing 314 flying boat...
...fortnightly passenger service to Down Under, to start late this summer, Pan Am will pull one of its B-314s off the Atlantic run, reinforce its hull for Pacific operation. The American Clipper will make the run in four and a half days (steamship time: 17 days), may well be filled with westbound mail formerly shipped eastward over British Overseas Airways via Karachi and Singapore, to Britain's Australasian colonies. With six new B-314s on order, Pan Am can step up service on the New Zealand run next year when new Clippers are to be delivered...
...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...