Word: transoceanic
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...surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...
...others to be rescued. In the past season alone, six Europe-bound planes dropped into the Atlantic. The Pacific likewise has taken toll. Rescue work is often as dangerous as, usually more costly than the actual flights attempted. Formerly the Department of Commerce only looked on, conceding that many transocean flights were worthwhile experiments. But nowadays, with conventional equipment, they are apt to be merely repetitious. Last week the Department took action. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics Young announced that hereafter every pilot bound for a foreign country (other than Canada, Mexico, Cuba) must have Department authorization. Authorization will be granted...
From Budapest to Rome for the first congress of transocean flyers, flew Capt. George ("Yurga") Endres in the Lockheed Justice for Hungary which he flew from the U. S. last year. Just before the take-off Capt. Alexander Magyar, his transatlantic flying companion with whom Capt. Endres later quarreled, withdrew from the Rome jaunt. In his place went Capt. Julius Bittay. Arrived over Littorio Airport the plane went into a sideslip, unaccountably crashed. Before the eyes of other famed airmen gathered to greet them, Flyers Endres and Bittay died in flames...
...While ministers with olive branches in their hands are discussing peace, I see jealousy among the nations steadily increasing. New experiments are made with U-boats, torpedoes, ex- plosives and horrid gases, and secret discussions are carried on on the employment of poisonous gas on the oceans. Besides transocean flights, secret duration flights are made by planes heavily loaded with bombshells, so that one must consider the possibility of being at- tacked suddenly...