PACIFIC CLIPPER
RECORD FLIGHT ROUND WORLD. AUCKLAND TO NEW YORK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 6. Pan-American Airways’ Pacific Clipper arrived today from Auckland, completing the first roundworld flight by a commercial transport plane. ; The clipper departed from Auckland on December 16 with the normil route to San Francisco cut off, and proceeded to Noumea, Australia, and the Netherlands East Indies, and on to India, Egypt, West Africa, South America, the West Indies, and NeAV York. The flight totalled 24,686 miles, and one hop covered 3583 miles. The arrival of the clipper means that all Pan-American’s planes caught in the Pacific Avar are accounted for, the only casualty being the clipper destroyed at Hong Kong. The emergency flight took 22 days in all and 12 flying days. The chance of resumption of the service on the San Francisco-Auckland route is regarded as remote.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1942, Page 4
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