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When it had nearly run out of excuses for refusing a Pacific flight permit to Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, the Japanese Aviation Bureau protested last fortnight that the application had been before it for only two weeks. This was true, although the flyers' plea had made international conversation since their arrest six weeks ago for violating Japanese aviation laws (TIME, Aug. 17). Then the officials said they were afraid that the permit would be taken as a "precedent" by future offenders. Next, they suggested that the flyers wait until spring for the flight; but they would...
Promptly upon gaining their clearance Herndon & Pangborn filed entry for the $25,000 prize offered by the Tokyo Asahi for the first flight from Japan to the U. S. It was that newspaper, along with the rest of the Japanese press, which largely accounted for the flyers' difficulties with the authorities according to Managing Editor Kimpei Sheba of the Japan Times, writing this month in Editor & Publisher...
...were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese authorities took last week's tragedy as further excuse for withholding a flight permit from Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn (TIME...
...Bounds. When their attempt to beat the world-girdling record of Post & Gatty failed at Khabarovsk last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 10) wealthy young Hugh Herndon Jr. and hard-bitten Clyde Pangborn decided to slip down to Tokyo and try a nonstop flight to Seattle for $53.000 prize money. They thought to telegraph the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo for permission to fly over and land on Japanese soil, but neglected to wait for a reply before taking off. That was a grave mistake...
...have been locked up too, but for the intercession of Ambassador William Cameron Forbes. As it was, they were questioned four hours at the airport; four hours again the next day and nearly eight hours the day after that when their developed films showed views of fortifications. Both Herndon & Pangborn protested they had not recognized a fort if they saw one, but Japanese espionage laws are strict: They could be fined $1,500 or put in prison for three years. Civil officials, believing in the flyers' innocence of intent, were all for. leniency. But the army openly favored...