CALIFORNIA CLIPPER
DEPARTURE ON RETURN FLIGHT. FIVE THOUSAND SPECTATORS. (By h’elegraph— Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. The California Clipper taxied out from the airbase at 6.35 o’clock straight down the harbour well past North Head, turned round and roared back up the harbour, leaving the water opposite North Head. Flying over the airbase at an altitude of 300 feet, gaining height slowly. She banked round over the city and flew along the line of North Shore and disappeared beyond Rangitoto at about 7.5 a.m. There was a surprising crowd of about 5000 people at the airbase and the neighbouring cliffs and roadways were lined with motor-cars. Mr Clinton M. Hester, administrator of the United States Civil Aeronautic Authority, who had intended returning home by Australia changed his plans owing to the gravity of the international situation and returned in the clipper.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1939, Page 4
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141CALIFORNIA CLIPPER Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1939, Page 4
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