Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenland's coastal fogs are thick but generally localized in a 20-mi. area, permitting use of alternative ports...
...builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they could fly regularly, against 30 mi. head winds, the longest jumps over Atlantic or Pacific (Bermuda to Azores - 2,000 mi.; San Francisco to Honolulu - 2,400 mi...
...ship to rival the clippers. But when President Trippe speaks of equipment he means it also to include experience. And there he feels Pan American has a large advantage over all others when an ocean is to be flown. For three years Pan American has flown ships over 600 mi. of the Caribbean from Kingston, Jamaica to Barranquilla, Colombia. In their 1,380 flights, no ship has missed either terminal by more than three miles. Out of sight of land for at least six hours, the pilots keep unerringly on course by means of radio equipment privately designed and built...
Last April Pan American got into the Orient where competition by the airlines of Great Britain, France, Germany & Holland is particularly hot. Pan American made a partnership deal with the Chinese Nationalist Government to operate its air lines. That, plus the 2,600-mi. Alaskan system acquired last September, gives P. A. A. a doubly strategic position for trans-Pacific operations...
...flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...