CLIPPER'S FLIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22287, 9 December 1935, Page 11

CLIPPER'S FLIGHT

PACIFIC AIR MAIL '

THE FIRST ROUND TRIP TOLL UNDER SCHEDULE TIME By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received December 8, 6.56 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO. Deo. 1 "Coming back from the other side of the world to-day, I was impressed for the first time by the tremendous distance we covered in the China Clipper," writes Captain Edwin Musick, master of the aeroplane, in an article copyright to the I*orth American Newspaper Alliance. "We landed 17 hours and one minute out, at Honolulu, 62 hours and 55 minutes flying time out, at Manila, and 122 hours 42 minutes, flying time, from San Francisco to Manila and back to San Francisco. "The first round-trip crossing of the Pacific was completed in exact accordance with the rigid engineering arrangements, and well under the original scheduled 130 hours. Even to us, it seems incredible that we have been across the entire Pacific and back again within two weeks. "The first air mail from the Philippines and Guam will be delivered in New York and Washington within a week of its departure. "The people of the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and the Philippines declared ouin flight to be something of which, they had dreamed, and was now actually coming true. They are looking forward to the coming of the Clipper ships on schedules as regular as those of the steamers."

TRANSATLANTIC ROUTE.

NEtIOTIATIONS OPENED BRITISH-AMERICAN INTERESTS (Received December 8, 8.65 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 Following the assurances of joint cooperation in the early establishment of the transatlantic air service by the United States, Canada, the Irish "Free State, and Britain, representatives of the operating interests have opened negotiations preliminary to reaching a working agreement. The president of Pan-American Airways, Mr. Trippe, and the operations manager of Imperial Airways, Mr. C. E. Woods Humphrey, privately discussed the matter to-day. This development is in contrast to the freelyexpressed view of Government officials that all the Governments concerned would be invited to join in a general reciprocal agreement, and that there was no intention of allowing the service to become a British-American monopoly.