CHINA TAKES TO THE AIR
BUYING AIRPLANES FROM AMERICA MACHINE LIKE LINDBERGH’S I The Canton Government, which is striving to develop aviation in South China, has turned to America as a source of supply. A test flight of the first American commercial airplane ever to be imported into China has been completed to the satisfaction of the Government authorities. The plane is a Ryan Mahoney six-passenger brougham land-plane with a Wright-Whirlwind motor which was purchased for 13,050 dollars by the Canton Government. The plane is like Colonel Charles Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis, and maj be christened the Spirit of Canton. The American arms embargo prevented the export of airplanes until six months ago, when Consul-General Douglas Jenkins persuaded the State Department to grant export permits for American commercial planes. The Canton Government, which has long desired to purchase American planes, immediately ordered the plane which has just been delivered. It is thought that airplanes can be used for propaganda purposes to make the Chinese airmiuded. Therefore, a flight will be made at an early date from Canton to Shanghai, Hankow and ■Peking.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 12
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