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...knot wind blew on the starboard quarter of a Pan American Airways flying boat on the regular Cristobal-Miami run one day last week. The crew and two passengers were thankful to be up in the gusty sky instead of down on the surface of the Caribbean which still writhed and tossed from a whipping by a three-day gale. About 100 mi. short of Barranquilla, Colombia, first stop on the plane's northering flight via Jamaica, Pilot Frank Ormsbee saw something that made him nose rapidly down toward the water...
...Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five men, including the two owners, had been drowned...
...several hundred feet "upwind" from the mooring mast and marked by two lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard lights, two red port lights, flashing rhythmically. (There are white stern lights too.) The ship comes in low, hesitates, reconsiders, flies on and returns a few minutes later. Searchlights and floodlights are switched on. The Akron hovers cautiously low, drops landing lines which are seized by the ground crew...
Word was flashed to London. Next day when the starboard watch went ashore there were more mass meetings. There was no more talk of Communism; one Communist agitator that suddenly appeared was beaten up and kicked out of town. But the men meant business. In the morning the acting Commander-in-Chief Rear Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson signalled the battleship Valiant to hoist anchor and lead the line...
Officers' living quarters are on the starboard side, crew's on the port. Each room is about 8 by 10 ft., fitted with two pairs of double-decked, canvas-bottomed bunks and locker space. Ordinarily two watches of men will be carried, two men sharing a bunk in turn to save weight. (Normal flight crew of the Akron: eleven officers & 8 men plus pilots of planes carried aboard.) An innovation on dirigibles: each room has a floor register to admit hot air from the engine rooms...