THE SECOND STAGE
CALIFORNIA CLIPPER
FLIGHT TO CANTON ISLAND
(By Telegraph—Prese Association.)
AUCKLAND, August 24
After a night flight of 16 hours 50 minutes from San Francisco, the PanAmerican Airways California Clipper landed at Honolulu at 4.50 a.m. voday (New Zealand time).
The tentative schedule" for the survey flight to New Zealand provides for a full day's lay-over at Honolulu, and it was expected that the Boeing machine would leave for the newly-estab-lished base at Canton Island at 3.30 a.m. tomorrow (New Zealand time).
As the clipper's maiden flight across the Pacific is essentially a survey of the new route via Canton Island and Noumea, the schedule announced by the company is only regarded as tentative. Weather and any desire of Government and Pan-American observers on board to make longer stays at the new bases may result in later arrival at Auckland, However, if plans are maintained the crossing from Noumea to Auckland should be undertaken next Tuesday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1939, Page 8
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