Word: natale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jumping-off point to Africa, the South American Lisbon, is Natal. There Lodestars for the British take off for Bathurst 1,850 miles away...
There Pan Am's Capetown Clipper paused last week on an 18,290-mile proving flight from Manhattan to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo-a flight that will soon lead to regular fortnightly commercial service. There at Natal Pan Am is building two bases, one land...
Normally a quiet town of 56.165, Natal is crowded and a-boom. Its hospital is a dormitory for the airport builders; its hotel overflows with engineers, ferry pilots, tractor drivers, Axis spies. Two U.S. bulldozer operators took rooms in a high-class brothel, although they do not like the food. Eventually Pan Am hopes to build a hotel near its field, eleven bumpy miles from town...
...Natal land base (at Paramarim) Pan Am is building two runways, each a mile long; a radio station; underground gas tanks; a warehouse, loading sheds, etc. Right next to this field, and probably later to be included in it, is another one built by Air France for its Paris-Buenos Aires run. From it Savoia-Marchettis of the Italian Lati line this week still took off for Rome. A hulking Frenchman named Reynaud, in charge of this field, likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables...
...hour out of Natal over the Atlantic, a U.S. pilot in the first group ferrying planes to the British at Bathurst noticed a cylinder "missing." He was able to return to Natal and land, though beacon and runway lights were out, the field deserted. Mechanics discovered one very loose spark plug, several wiggly ignition wires. Since then airport lights shine all night and pilots stand two-hour watches over their planes...