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...Copilot, radioman, steward and passengers plastered their noses against windows while Pilot Ormsbee banked lower & lower around an animated speck on the surface -a lifeboat. Someone in it was waving an oar with a shirt tied to the blade. . . . There seemed to be ten persons in the boat. . . . One of them looked something like a woman. . . . And over there, taking a terrific beating from the waves, was another man hanging to a broken hatch door...
Aboard the vessel matters run smoothly. No attempt is made to speed the motors or submit the craft to stress; this is the most elementary of a series of tests. The radioman flashes to the White House the Akron's first message, in reply to a radiogram signed "Lou Henry Hoover" who christened the ship (TIME, Aug. 10). A dinner of broiled chicken, salad, ice cream, cake and coffee is served from the galley. President Paul Weeks Litchfield does not eat. Says he later: "I was too excited. I don't get to ride in the world...
Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of gales on the course east to Copenhagen, where the flyers were about to complete their survey of a subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over...
Hardy Pilot Cramer, accompanied by Radioman Oliver Pacquette, was on his way more than a week before he was discovered. From Detroit he flew his Diesel-powered plane to Hudson Bay, Great Whale, Wakeham Bay; thence to Pang-nirtung, Baffin Island; across the Davis Strait and across the Greenland ice cap-a route never before negotiated by airplane to Iceland; dropped down to the sea with engine trouble, made repairs, flew on to the Faroe Islands; the Shetlands; again eluded observers...
...stead of through all the intermediate points. Next step will be the installation of still stronger transmitters at New York and Los Angeles for direct transcontinental conversation. But the primary purpose of the system is for communication between planes in flight and the ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif...