HONOLULU CLIPPER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1940, Page 3

HONOLULU CLIPPER

EXPECTED AT AUCKLAND TODAY. SOUTH PACIFIC FLIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 31. The final stage of the South Pacific flight of Pan-American Airways Honolulu Clipper will be completed tomorrow, when the machine is expected to reach Auckland from Noumea, New Caledonia, at about 2.45 p.m. Taking off from Canton Island at 6.30 a.m. (New Zealand time), the clipper reached Noumea at 5.42 p.m. this afternoon. The clipper is commanded by Captain R. H. McGlohn, who was first officer of the same flying-boat on her survey flight to New Zealand last November. The first officer is Captain Kenneth Beer, who is making his first trip over the South Pacific route, and there are eight other members of the crew. There are seven passengers, Messrs H. Anderson and H. Taylor, of the United States Civil Aeronautics Authority, J. Caffrey, of Wright Aeronautics Company, R. Beecher, Pacific division engineer of Pan-American Airways, P. Delany, who is to be traffic manager for the company at Auckland, J. Yates, who has been transferred to Auckland as mechanic, and J. Lindberg, member of the company's engineering staff at San Francisco. The flight so far has been uneventful and the forecast prepared in Auckland suggested continuation of favourable flying conditions with a moderate beam wind on the 1100-mile journey from Noumea to Auckland. The clipper will be serviced at the base on Friday, and will leave on the return flight on Saturday morning. Mails for the trip are closing at Auckland on Friday morning.