PACIFIC AIRWAY.
AAIERICAN PREPARATIONS. Received December 10, 12.35 p.m. HONOLULU, Dec. 9. An early start with Pan-American Airways’ experimental flights to the Antipodes is indicated by the arrival here of the Niagara, which is taking a crew of Pan-American Airways’ technical experts and equipment for installations at Suva and Auckland. The equipment includes a spare motor for each base and radio equipment. The Niagara unloaded 29 cases of equipment for transhipment to Kingman Reef and Fanning Island. A cableship picked up the Pan-American Airways freighter Nortliwind on the way to Kingman Reef. The date of the first flight is not fixed, as the bases are not ready and obstacles at Kingman Reef must be overcome. Officials hope to start early in 1937.
Mr Harold Gatty, who is aboard the Niagara, did not comment on his part of the project, which is the first technical move on tho New Zealand air line.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 9
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