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1934 U.S. Navy flying boats record flight to Hawaii...
1934 U.S. Navy flying boats record flight to Hawaii...
Item # 723752
January 11, 1934
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, January 11, 1934
* United States Navy flying boats
* Airplanes flight record to Hawaii
* San Francisco to Pearl Harbor
The top of the front page has a three column headline: "Six Navy Planes Racing to Honolulu on Longest Mass Flight in History" with subheads and related map. (see images)
Complete with 24 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally good.
AI notes: In January 1934, six U.S. Navy Consolidated P2Y‑1 seaplanes completed the longest massed nonstop ocean flight in aviation history at that time, traveling 2,400 miles from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor in 24 hours and 38 minutes under the command of Lieutenant Commander Knefler McGinnis. The squadron maintained a tight formation, flying low over the Pacific, sugar-cane fields, and Waikiki Beach, with escort aircraft joining 15 miles north of Oahu. Along the route, the planes passed six Navy guard ships, with one aircraft temporarily separated in fog before rejoining. They were greeted at Pearl Harbor by thousands of spectators, a deafening din of ship whistles, and the siren atop Aloha Tower, demonstrating both the endurance of the crews and the capability of U.S. naval aviation for long-range Pacific operations.
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