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AMERICA-HONOLULU. CLIPPER ’PLANE’S TRIP. SAN FRANCISCO, August 10. The Pan-American clipper ’plane, which flew to Honolulu and' on to;.Mldway Island, and returned in June, again hopped' off from Alameda, California, for Honolulu. The machine flew to Wade Island as a further' preliminary ini connection with the proposed air mail and passenger ro,ute from California to China. The clipper landed at Honolulu today after a record flight from Alameda of 17 hours 9 minutes, even though it deviated from the charted course several times to make special surveys: of air conditions. It will leave for Midway Island probably on Tuesday, and fly thence to Wake Island. It will not proceed to Guam.
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Northern Advocate, 12 August 1935, Page 5
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