Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many similar messages had come in?or been falsely reported; it was impossible; nobody believed it. Then, suddenly, bells rocked the steeples of Honolulu; bonfires were lighted; crowds capered in the streets and jostled for the extras which told them that the news was true ? the PN9 was safe. Submarine U-4 had found Rodgers and his men 15 miles east of Kaui, an island 64 miles west by north-west of the island of Oahu. From the men, gaunt, unshaven, fever-eyed, particulars of their 9 day dereliction were culled by reporters...
This distance is 2,100 nautical miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
...commended by Lieutenant Allan Snody, did not get very far. Four hundred miles from the California beaches it was forced down by a groken oil pressure line?a surprising, an unfortunate accident. The PN-9 No. 1 would, of course, continue. But the watchers under the Honolulu bulletin board were suddenly amazed to the toy that delighted them stop in its course, its little light...
Wailule, the Honolulu radio station, had picked up a message from the PN9 No. 1: "Please keep good track. Gas is about all gone. Think it impossible...
...During the War he had acted as Commandant of the Allies' largest flying school (at Issoudun, France). In the last three months he has made an investigation of Government air bases and air routes. President Coolidge, conscious of all this, shook the Senator's hand warmly, bid Hiram Bingham, Honolulu-born Yankee, a hearty welcome, conversed with him for two hours...