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...company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge of a Pan American East Greenland Expedition with a base camp about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University of Michigan Pan American Airways West Greenland Expedition, commanded by Dr. Ralph Belknap, worked out of three bases. Last August Watkins was drowned when his kayak capsized but his party carried on under his aide, John R. Rymill. Using no aircraft except sounding balloons...
...Greenland's coastal fogs are thick but generally localized in a 20-mi. area, permitting use of alternative ports...
...builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they could fly regularly, against 30 mi. head winds, the longest jumps over Atlantic or Pacific (Bermuda to Azores - 2,000 mi.; San Francisco to Honolulu - 2,400 mi...
...ship to rival the clippers. But when President Trippe speaks of equipment he means it also to include experience. And there he feels Pan American has a large advantage over all others when an ocean is to be flown. For three years Pan American has flown ships over 600 mi. of the Caribbean from Kingston, Jamaica to Barranquilla, Colombia. In their 1,380 flights, no ship has missed either terminal by more than three miles. Out of sight of land for at least six hours, the pilots keep unerringly on course by means of radio equipment privately designed and built...
Last April Pan American got into the Orient where competition by the airlines of Great Britain, France, Germany & Holland is particularly hot. Pan American made a partnership deal with the Chinese Nationalist Government to operate its air lines. That, plus the 2,600-mi. Alaskan system acquired last September, gives P. A. A. a doubly strategic position for trans-Pacific operations...