BIG MASS FLIGHT.
From San Francisco to
Honolulu.
SIX U.S. NAVY SEAPLANES
HONOLULU, January 12
The greatest overseas mass flight in the history of aviation was completed with clock-like precision yesterday afternoon, when six United States Navy seaplanes, carrying 30 men on the 2400-mile route from California to Hawaii, alighted on Pearl Harbour, Honolulu, in one-two-three order. The flyers received a rousing welcome.
The actual flying time was 26 hours 21 minutes, but tho flying time in formation from the Golden Gate was 24 hours 45 minutes.
The first machine, carrying LieutenantCommander Knefler McGinnis, who was in charge of the flight, landed at 12.30 p.m. Honolulu time, and was followed by the others at one-minute intervals. Twice during the flight one machine was lost in fog, but returned to the formation upon emerging from it.
The event is the first flight to Hawaii since that of Sir Charles (then Captain) Kingsford Smith in the Southern Grose in 1928, in the course of his first big world flight from San Francisco to Brisbane. •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 9
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