YANKEE CLIPPER
ROUND VOYAGE COMPLETED ARRIVAL AT PORT WASHINGTON. SISTER VESSEL READY TO SET OUT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. PORT WASHINGTON. May 27. Pan-American Airways’ Yankee Clipper landed here today at 2.48 p.m., completing the first round trip commercial flight to Europe. It was planned to fly non-stop from the Azores, but a lowpressure area necessitated a landing at Bermuda. It is understood that passengers will not be carried till five roundtrip crossings have been completed. In the meantime the Atlantic Clipper, sister ship of the Yankee Clipper, has been fuelled here in preparation for the start of the second commercial flight across the Atlantic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1939, Page 5
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