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The June 1937 AIRPOST JOURNA 1937 Revised Edition 520 Pages 2000 11 lust:rat:ions Lists and Prices Official and Semi-Official Airpost: Stamps of the World Cloth Bound • • • • prepaid $2.00 DeLuxe Edition • • thumb index $4.00 OUR NEW ISSUE SERVICE Brings you all of the new stamps at: their proper prices Nicolas Sanabria, Inc. 17 ~ast: 42nd Street: ·:- New York City CABLE ADDRESS: NICSAN, NEW YORK e PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS "HAWAII CLIPPER" ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND NEW PLANS Trail.Blazing Flight Across Pacific route between the United States and the world mar,kets of Australasia, opened a ·to New Zealand Sets Stage for new dramatic chapter in the stirring New Advance of Americq,' .~ history of American aerial pioneering. " W o r l d " Airways With the increasing dependence of world For Trade trade upon fast, frequent schedules of the "flying merchantmen", which prac tically every important industrial nation HE EXPLORATORY SURVEY FLIGHT on the globe has launched forth to speed T of the "Pan American Clipper" across its competitive commerce over the the little-known South Pacific, assign world's trade·routes, the conquest of the ed to blaze a 7 ,000 mile aerial trade oceans by scheduled air transport is of e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE e AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY T~I: AIRPOST JOURNAL e J"UNE. 1937 VOL. VIII. NO. 9 e ISSUE 86 lOc PER COPY 3 JUNE 1937 • TWO MODERN engineering vice across the last unflown ocean, the feats which span water-(left) story of American aviation's record · in The China Clipper on her first the · field of ocean flying takes on added official trans-Pacific ftight. seen importance. Already it has covered near over the famous Bay Bridge. ly seven years of intensive research and preparation and actual accomplishment. The record of one phase of this con mounting concern to both governments quest that resulted· in establishment of and commercial interests on both sides Pan American Airways Clipper route of the Atlantic. from San Francisco to the far-off Philip pines, by way of Hawaii and the little Back of these spectacular thrusts of way station islands of Midway, · Wake aviation between continents and across and Guam, is already well known to the oceans, then. is a de.ep-seated national world. Known, too. is the five years of purpose whi~h, although little recogniz research and development work ·. which. ed by the public at large, is changing produced for that aerial conquest the the . age-old manners and methods of in worl~'s first ocean-goitig flyingboats for ernational relationships. And it is the actual transport service. Five years of airways which span the oceans, that link practice, of steady training and con the great centers of population on either st3nt refinement of flight and naviga side of these water. barriers. which are tion. produced a corps of destined ·to play· the key role in a further techni~ues, world system of aerial transport which, experts predict. will bring the nations qf the world within a seven-day arc of transport and communication. Although the last to enter this highly competitive international - · field, the United States today holds the first posi tion in the list of great international air transport systems. While European na tions have advanced their aerial net works across the nearby Mediterranean to Africa through the Balkans to the Near East. through and across to Africa and over Persia and India to the Orient, and Australia, America's international air transport system, the Pan American Airways, has by tremendous strides crossed and encircled the. Caribbean Sea and welded a circuit of airways around the South American continent to meet and match the competition of European subsidized airways for preference routes into the rich markets of Latin America. ln other fields, too, particularly Alaska and far-off · China, they have pioneered establishment of regular air transport service in important fields well beyond our continental borders. But the record of America's ocean conquest is, undoubtedly, the outstand ing chapter in this moving history. To-: day, When the first step in Transatlantic flying is about to begin with the early establishment of service between this country and Bermuda, and with no less than four nations preparing to launch e TRANS - PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The experimental transport flights across cargo of mail for the initial flight to the breadth of . the Atlantic looking for Manil2. November 22. 1935 . .ward toward early establishment of ser- 5 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL brilliant flying men trained for that cme What most of the world does not objective - transoceanic air transport. know, however, is that, at the same Endless research on radio guides and time the northern Transpacific route to other instruments for ·navigation made the Orient was laid out, field studies certain that the Clippers would be able were also begun by these same aerial to follow the paths their pioneers pioneers, on another key trade route- blazed across the "trackless" ocean with from the United States to Australasia, a out the slightest deviation in the long 7 ,000 mile airway to span the South · 9,000-mile course, which is to be ex Pacific via Honolulu, the tiny island of tended to the coast of China within the Kingman Reef and American S'lmoa. next few weeks. Finally, the amazing For many reasons this work was advanc colonizing expedition that er~cted a ed quietly but steadily. As early as chain of fully-equipped bases on the far 1934 engineers of the Pan American Air separated island outposts contributed an ways System took to the field to ~upple important record of modern-day pio ment their collection of all procurable neering. data on winds and weather and water of the South Pacific region. Early in How well these painstaking preparations 1935, a small, unpretentious vessel put were worked out is best evidenced by out of Honolulu with a staff of experts the hundred crossings the Pacific Clip in flight operation, weather and oceano pers have accomplished since the in graphy, who spent months in looking auguration of the first Transpacific air over countless islands in search of prac- mail service less than a year and a half ago and by the regularity of the week ly scheduled flights across the broad breadth of the North Pacific to the Ori e THE STARS AND STRIPES ent and back again. go up over Howland Island, tiny dot on the Pacific which may prove a valuable aerial outpost in the future . ·::~' JUNE 1937 e FIRST dispatch of F.A.M. 14 tr an s - Pacific airmail from Honolulu, Hawaii to Macao, Asia. ticable bases. From the result of their detail. Meanwhile, great stores of de• studies the present survey route was tailed data gathered over the Northern charted-San Francisco to Honolulu, a Pacific while Clipper Ships were amas 2400-mile parallel course to the present sing a half million miles of scheduled Clipper Ship route to the Orient: Hono transport flying experience in the San lulu, 1100 miles south and west to King Francisco-Manila service, become more man Reef. a tiny' · dot located in almost and more useful in perfecting details the exact geographical center of the of the South Pacific project. Lessons Pacific Ocean, whose sand surface mea learned in the . operation of the big sures less than a residential city lot; Clippers, were incorporated into the ad from Kingman Reef 1600 miles, on a vance design of the new S-42B flyingboat southwest course to Pago Pago, center of which has inherited the name of "Pan the American Samoan islands; thence a American Clipper", from that earlier final 1800 miles to Auckland, New Sikorsky which made the trail-blazing Zeal~nd. flights over the route to the Philippines. Following the technical surveyers, in Every weather forecast made twice dividual meteorologists, operations en daily for that northern route during the gineers, radio technicians, took up sta past two years held information on the tions at several key points and began to flying weather for the present project tackle the problems facing air transport a·s well. Every hour of experience gained operation in the region. particularly in long-range over-ocean radio work, in the study of · surface and upper air handling, docking, refueling and ser weather of the South Pacific, considered vicing the Clipper Ships, in flying and the most variable of any meteorological navigating those big flyingboats, made areas in the world, since it is here that just that much more certain· the attain the typhoons originate which sweep able success of an American trade route toward Guam, the Philippines and the to the far-off "continent" of Australasia. China Sea and whence also come the The importance attached to the estab hurricanes that move in an opposite di lishment of an air transport service be rection across the South Seas of the tween the United States and this im southern hemisphere. portant region of the world is striking It was upon these preliminary sur ly apparent in any cursory review of veys that the detailed plan of airway world trade statistics. It was the trade organization was based. Problems of aspects of this particular service which fuel transport and supply, of radio and nearly four years ago moved the Post weather station locations, of clearances Office Department and other govern and tests for the powerful ocean-span mental agencies in Washington to direct ning radio Direction Finders, of detailed attention to the need for and value of studies and exploration, of landing and an American air transport service to take-off channels upon which the safety the Antipodes.