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On a 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.
The cruising radius of the seaplanes out of Etah was cut down from 1,000 to 700 miles by the absence of a smooth stretch of beach in Etah harbor, the planes not being able to rise from the water with as heavy loads as they could lift from land...
As a man seeking eagles' eggs will pause to secure his foothold in the last dizzy crotch beneath the eyrie, Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout...
National Geographic Society (TIME, June 29 et seq.), ordered his two ships on up the Labrador Coast. A stop was made at Domino to take on sealskin boots. Bucking a head wind into Hopedale Harbor, MacMillan learned that the ice had gone out of there only four days before; yet...
This time, however, it strikes nearer home. Under AERONAUTICS, appears the following: "Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time, etc. I, personally happened to have been the Commanding Officer and First Pilot of Navy Seaplane No. 3589 F-S-L type, which left the...