Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1935, Page 28

CLPPERS FYER TRY SURF BOARDS Crew Refreshed After Dash to Honolulu Setting New Record. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 18.—A new tot, over which they seemed far more ex- cited than the “routine” business of & 2,400-mile ocean flight, faced six crew members from the flying boat Pan- American Clipper today—the ordeal of learning to steer Hawaiian surf boards. Within three hours after their ar- rival here Wednesday at the end of their record-breaking flight from Alameda, Calif., every member of the Clipper's crew had piled into bed. Freshly shaven, carefully uniformed, they were reticent about their achieve- ment of cutting exactly seven hours off the previous coast-to-island time record. Capt. Edwin C. Musick, vet- eran international mail pilot in charge of the flight, said simply: “This project means the final stretch of overseas pioneering and is & tribute to the remarkable strides made by aviation in the last three decades.” To Survey Landing Spots. Almost immediately, Capt. Musick announced plans for a series of survey | flights over the Hawaiian islands to| familiarize the crew with landing| fields and to chart other landing facil- ities. All this must be done before | Tuesday, tentatively set for the start| of the return flight to he mainland, | with Alameda, Los Angeles or San| Diego as the destination. | Before the surveys, and apparently | without thought of the return trip or the series of “shuttling” flights planned for the next several months, the crew planned to master surf- board riding at Waikiki today. The four-motored Clipper slipped into the water of Pearl Harbor yes- terday at 7:57 a.m. (1:27 p.m. Eastern standard time), 17 hours and 45 min- utes after leaving Alameda and just three minutes ahead of schedule. Carried First “Pay Load.” Guided constantly by radio, she had negotiated the 2,400 miles of open sea without incident, had brought the first “pay load” ever to cross that portion of the Pacific by air—100 pounds of airmail—and had blazed the way for regular trans- Pacific passenger and mail service to | be established in the near future. - “Right in the middle of our 2,400 miles,” Musick asserted, “Rod Sulli- van, assistant in command, turned to me and said: ‘I know every wave in this ocean.'” In order to keep to her schedule the plane was forced to leave her course and reduce speed several times. | During the flight the controls were | handled in relays by various members of the crew, while others slept. But today the crew members were nervous, impatient for the real climax of their trip—Waikiki surf boards. MAIL HANDICAPS WITH BYRD TOLD Anderson Tells Collectors’ Club of Difficulties in Canceling Stamps. It was “a remarkable thing” that eny of the first batch of philatelic | mail sent to Little America with the | second Byrd Antarctic Expedition ever | got back to the United States, Charles | P. Anderson, special representative of | the Postmaster General, who was sent | to Little America last November, told | members of the Collectors’ Club of | Washington at a meeting Tuesday night in the Thomson School. | “The work of setting up living quarters, unloading and transferring tons of supplies and mail miles and miles across the rough barrier ice, created a problem which taxed to the utmost the energy and ability of every man in the party,” sald Ander- | son, the first member of the Byrd | expedition to return to Washington. | He said he was forced to set up his | post office in the science “hall” of | the Little America base, a cave about 16 by 20 feet in size cut into the bar- | rier ice 20 feet below the surface. When he tried to heat the room suffi- clently to liquefy the canceling ink | the ice overhead began to melt and he had to construct a “main line trunk sewer” of oiled paper to carry off the flow from 15 drips in the ceiling. Anderson said that in his anxiety to cancel in Little America not only all the mail brought with him, but slso the untouched remainder of the | first batch of mail sent down with the | expedition, he spent more than 20! hours out of each 24 at work and | slept only 18 hours during his 16 days | in Little America. - Editor Dies. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 18 (#).— John Thompson, 65, an editor of Wal- lace’s Farmer and Iowa Homestead, died in a hospital here last night. He had been ill several weeks. Thompson, a well-known agricul- turist, was editor of the Iowa Home- stead for 10 years. 'l Expresses Daily To BALTIMORE Why not an Easter vaca- tion spent with the folks back home? Big roomy Short Line Buses travel over the shortest, smooth- est routes on frequent schedules. Reliable ex- perienced drivers, reclin- ing chairs, terminals in hearts of all cities. DISTRICT Washington Lerminal for $Ae Short Line end Associate Carriers Clippe THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1935. r’s Captain Tells Story Of Record Flight to Hawaii Plane Rede Out of Sight of Ocean for Nearly 12 Hours—Instrument Board Often Used as Guide. (The story of the trail-blazing, record flight of the Pan-American clipper from Alameda, Calif., to Homolulu in 17 hours and 45 minutes is related here by the captain ia charge of the flight.) BY EDWIN C. MUSICK. By Radio to The Star. HONOLULU, April 18 (N.AAN.A)— ‘The first transport crossing of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawalil is behind us. Being the longest single hop. it presented the most important flight problem of the entire | 8,500-mile route over which FPan- American Airways hopes to bridge the Pacific, linking America and the Far East with fast, dependable air trans- port schedules within the next few months. All the members of the crew, as well as myself, agree that our greatest single satisfaction lies in having ac- complished the first ocean flight of a transport project on schedule in every detall, in accordance with the program assigned long before our actual departure. The explanation of how it was possible to complete & 2,550-mile flight actually within one minute of the schedule established—the flight in- cluding not only the 2,410-mile cross- ing, but approximately 150 miles of landing areas survey as well—lies simply in the thoroughness with which each problem was plotted in advance and the technical solution provided. Clouds Make Floor Below. Conditions favored execution of our assignment to a remarkable degree. Perfect weather at the take-off con- tinued. As the sun was setting be- hind the flery western horizon, we moved into a world beneath a limit- less, star-studded canopy above, with an impenetrable floor of clouds 4,000 feet below. For nearly 12 hours we were without sight of the ocean, | maintaining our flight level at an al- | titude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet. For | training purposes, this afforded an excellent opportunity for close cor- relation of celestial dead reckoning with radio compass navigation. With & remarkably dependable ra- dio set-up, our stations in both Cali- fornis and Hawail following us every mile of the way across, we were able to explore at will the variations be- tween the great circle and mercator courses and other course deviations required of us. With infrequent changes in the major contour aspects of the cloud floor, the only sights within the vast moonlight-flooded area, there was little sightseeing to be done, even if we had had the time to do any. Each officer in the crew, in addition to his share of the routine operations, had special projects assigned to him for study. Because we were so busy, per- haps, the long hours passed swiftly. Tested Instrument Flying. Relieved of a considerable part of the mechanical details of flying by a Sperry gyropilot, at intervals both | First Officer R. O. D. Sullivan and I were able to devote long periods to | instrument fiying beneath the hood which entirely shields either section of our cockpit from any visibility. Engineering Officer Victor Wright, tion of mechanical features aboard struments, was hardly absent from his post leng enough to share our midnight supper, specially prepared from the self-heating foods we car- ried. Radio Officer W. T. Jarboe, jr., had an extremely busy but occasionally entertaining time communicating with our three pan-American guarding sta- with his task of recording the opera- | and the readings of 71 separate in- | tions, at Alameds, Honolulu and Miami. Between receiving weather reports approximately every 20 min- utes and dispatching position reports and a complete flight-progress analy- sis every 30 minutes, he somehow found time to speak to the pan-Amer- ican air base construction steamer, now at the Midway Islands, and to all seven steamers on the Pacific be- tween Hawail and the mainland, on some of which he took bearings by our radio compass. Navigator Stayed on Job. Our navigating officer, Fred J. Noonan, did not take his scheduled rest period during the entire 18 hours and 40 minutes we were aloft. Swathed in a heavy flying suit, face mask and goggles, he made more than a dozen trips down the long aisle to the aft observation hatch to take his periodic sights of the stars. In addition to his navigation duties he also recorded & complete analysis of wind and weather ccnditions on the entire area we covered On this flight, of course, we were endeavoring to learn all that was pos- sible concerning our assigned area of | the Pacific, and to make the fullest possible use of the flight for training purposes as well. Before this flight, the crew had flown some 15,000 miles on the Pan-American Clipper under the closest possible approximation of the conditions we met on the actual flight. .In addition, for nearly three years, all our marine personnel was schooled in navigation and operating problems of the Pacific as well as the Atlantic. In those courses, we had “flown” Ithis course so many times that the WooDWARD & LLOTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE Friday—Remnant Day Savings for Everyone Remnant Day merchandise is not returnable or exchangeable; not sent C. 0. D. or on approval; phone or mail orders not accepted. 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