THREE PLANES OVER PACIFIC
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Two Clipper Ship? Apd Amefia Earhart STORM CLEARING
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(Received 18, 8.45 a.m.) ) SAN FRANCISCO, Maich 1&, ' The clipper plane whicli is to make a survey flight to New Zealand will start to-morrow, when Mrs Amelia Earhart-Futnam will also hegin her world flight. The weather forecast announced that the storm was clearing xapidlyi but the planes might encpunter north* erly cross-winds. Pan-American Airways announced that the Hawaii clipper, -which has been delayed for several days, ytill nlso start, which will mean that threp planes will be crossing thq Pacific. Airway's ofdcials said this would tax the communication facilities, but they believed an acceptable schedule could be : -ranged, d».a to the yarying cruising speeds of the planes— -the 'New ZeaInad Clipper, 155 miles aa hourj the Hawaii Clipper, 140 miles an honr; end Mrs Earhart-Pntnam's plane, 180 to 190. The three will follow; the. sameroute to Honolulu. .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 53, 18 March 1937, Page 5
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