25c - Scott#: C20 - Century of Progress FDC First Flight San Fransisco to Manila
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Manila Electric Company 3 -25c - Scott#: C20 - Century of Progress FDC First Flight San Fransisco to ManilaCover Above Average Stamps are VF CLIPPER LANDS AT WAKE ISLE;PUTS ON SPEED Crosses Stretch of Ocean fromMidway in 8 hours and 28 Minutes; flies to Guam Today WAKE ISLAND, Nov. 26.--(Via Pan-American Airways Radio.) --(AP) --Air mail sped across another stretch of the vast Pacific Ocean when the China Clipper landed here today (Tuesday) en route to Manila after a swift 1,191-mile flight from Midway islands. The mighty seaplane glided to a landing at 1:40 p.m. (6:40 p.m. Monday, Pacific Standard Time), taking eight hours and 28 minutes for the flight, an average of about 125 miles per hour. The voyage across this shortest link in the California-Manila route was accomplished in much faster time than Capt. E.C. Musick, skipper of the 25-ton craft, had anticipated. DIPS OVER LINCOLN In about 38 and one-half hours of flying, the China Clipper has crossed nearly 5,200 miles of the 8,000-mile distance between Alameda, Calif., and Manila, end of the present journey to establish transpacific air mail service. Mail and supplies for the Wake Airways Station arrived aboard the seaplane which also brought nine employes, who will be stationed here. En route here, the plane dipped low over the steamship President Lincoln, which saluted
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