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Almost exactly a yearago (TiME, Sept. 14, 21, 1925), another plane, the PN-9, NO. 1, fell with Commander Rodgers into the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco was 1,700 miles behind; the Hawaiian Islands 400 miles ahead. He and his men had no food, no fuel. They ripped the fabric off the wings and caught a little rainwater in it. Commander Rodgers, with a "silly little still" his mother had made him take along, distilled more drink from seawater. After a week, a submarine found the plane and its scarecrow crew...
...Patrol vessels were stationed every 200 miles, a distance entirely too far apart for an experimental flight of this kind with such primitive flying machines as the PN-9s are. Double or triple this number of vessels should have been there. In fact, the whole Pacific fleet should have been placed there, instead joy riding around the Antipodes...
...golden afternoon last week, two large seaplanes rose from Pablo Bay, Calif., and lifted their droning snouts over the Pacific. They?the "giant" seaplanes PN-9 No. 1 and PN-9 No. 3?had received orders from the Navy Department to fly to Hawai...
...PN-9 No. 3 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...
...Pmautpamihtuar s r b y pep pn...