SECOND STAGE COVERED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20926, 4 January 1938, Page 6

SECOND STAGE COVERED

SIKORSKY REACHES KINGMAN REEF

DUE AT HONOLULU TO-DAY By Telegraph— Association AUCKLAND. January 3. Carrying the first air mail to be sent from New Zealand to the United States, the Pan-American Airways Samoan Clipper landed at Kingman Reef at 2.51 o’clock this afternoon, according to advice received in Auckland by radio. The machine flew from Pago Pago, a distance of 1400 miles, in 10 hours 22minutes. The flight was uneventful, according to radio reports received from the commander, Captain Edwin C. Musick, by Mr A. L. Lewis, the company’s airport manager in Auckland. There was cloud over some sections of the journey, but this made no difference to the progress o£ the Clipper, which encountered fair weather generally and light winds. Present intentions are for the Sikorsky to take off from Kingman Reef early to-morrow morning for Honolulu. This course will depend on the weather forecast, but it is thought likely in Auckland that conditions on I the route will be suitable for the I journey, which should occupy about eight hours for the 1100 miles. I The schedule for the weekly air service between Honolulu and San Francisco operated by the PanAmerican Airways with Martin flyingijoats calls for one of the machines to leave Honolulu early each Monday afternoon or Tuesday afternoon. New I Zealand time. In the circumstances jit is considered likely that Captain I Musick will leave Kingman Reef £> ' early as possible to-morrow morning to reach Honolulu in time for the mails and freight for the United States to be transferred from the Samoan Clipper to the Martin Clipper.