PACIFIC AIRWAYS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 5

PACIFIC AIRWAYS

PAN-AMFRICAN SERVICE HUGE BOEING COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. LEAVING SAN FRANCISCO ON TUESDAY. •By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 15. Reintroducing the trans-Pacific service of Pan-American Airways, a huge Boeing flying-boat is expected to leave San Francisco on Tuesday next on a preliminary flight to New Zealand. It is expected that the machine will land at Auckland on Saturday. August 26. almost co-inciding with the arrival of the trans-Tasman flying boat Aotearoa, which is scheduled to end her delivery flight from Southampton at Auckland on the following day. The New Zealand representative of Pan-American Airways, Mr Harold Gatty, announced that August 22 had been fixed as the tentative date for the clipper's departure from San Francisco. The route, he added, would be via Honolulu, Canton Island and Noumea. No details have been received about the personnel which will man the clipper on its flight to New Zealand. However, it is considered that the crew will consist of at least eight men, comprising the captain, the first officer, the second officer, the third officer, two radio operators, an engineer, and a steward. As the flying-boat is undertaking what is essentially a survey flight over a changed route, no passengers or mails will be carried. The clipper's stay in New Zealand is likely to be limited to one or two days, and she will then return to San Francisco.