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Like Herndon & Pangborn, who ran -afoul of the Japanese authorities for flying over forbidden ground, Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler was arrested last week by local officials at Fortaleza, Brazil because he showed no authorization to fly over Brazilian territory and had "not sufficient proof of his identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit...
...thing to land a plane on its belly because you have deliberately dropped your landing gear, as did Herndon & Pangborn when they flew the Pacific. It is another and highly disconcerting thing to discover unexpectedly that you must land like that when your Big Boss is your passenger. Last week Lieut. Elwood Quesada (of the Army's original Question Mark endurance team) had that experience over Long Island. His passenger, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, wanted to land at North Beach to keep a Manhattan engagement. Over the airport Lieut. Quesada pushed the pumphandle that...
...airplane last week, the feat caused barely more excitement than many of the attempts and untoward incidents preceding it. Manhattan evening papers considered it far less important than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo...
...that, ice began to form on the wings as they climbed high over cloud banks, making the plane logy. A painful moment occurred at 3,000 mi. when the engine coughed - until the flyers remembered to switch from an empty gasoline tank to a full one. At first Herndon & Pangborn intended to fly to Salt Lake City, if possible, for a new distance record. They did fly as far as Spokane but turned back to Wenatchee "because we liked the looks of it better." With Pangborn at the controls they circled the field three times, dumped the last of their...
Editor Sheba's story: Herndon & Pangborn were under contract with North American Newspaper Alliance whose client, Tokyo Nichi-Nichi, had bought the rights to their story. The contract made it improper for the flyers to compete for the Asahi's prize, but the Asahi made persistent overtures nonetheless. Each paper feared that the other would win the flyers as proteges. Hence, when the government officials showed hostility toward the men for entering Japan without a permit and flying over fortified zones, each paper seized the opportunity to destroy the flyers' value to the opposition. Both alighted heavily...