PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS' CUPPER LEAVES ON HER RETURN SURVEY FLIGHT TO SAN FRANCISCO A DAY LATER THAN ORIGINALLY NICHT DEPARTURE WITNESSED , The runway prepared for the Clipper's take-off for Pago Pago before dawn on Saturday was rendered useless by a sudden change in the direction of t e win o owing a ( eavy rain' *£'ua ? hours of the"rncniinc The dinghies shown in one of the pictures were to\ved out to indicate the runway, each carrying w*. postponed. The machine took off successfully at 4.1 7 a.m. yesterday and arrived at Pago Pago 12 hours 54 minutes later. These photographs were taken at Mechanics Bay during the ear y Hou of the ,Thed"f'eBin^^t^n P . ■ , lanterns. Upper right; Captain Edwin C. Musick and Mr. Harold Gatty on their way to board the Clipper. Lower right: Officers being rowed out to the Hying Doat in a aingny.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22694, 5 April 1937, Page 6

PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS' CUPPER LEAVES ON HER RETURN SURVEY FLIGHT TO SAN FRANCISCO A DAY LATER THAN ORIGINALLY NICHT DEPARTURE WITNESSED The runway prepared for the Clipper's take-off for Pago Pago before dawn on Saturday was rendered useless by a sudden change in the direction of t e win o owing a ( eavy rain' * £ ' ua ? hours of the"rncniinc The dinghies shown in one of the pictures were to\ved out to indicate the runway, each carrying w*. postponed. The machine took off successfully at 4.1 7 a.m. yesterday and arrived at Pago Pago 12 hours 54 minutes later. These photographs were taken at Mechanics Bay during the ear y Hou of the , Thed"f' eß in^^t^n P . ■ , lanterns. Upper right; Captain Edwin C. Musick and Mr. Harold Gatty on their way to board the Clipper. Lower right: Officers being rowed out to the Hying Doat in a aingny.