The Seward gateway., 1920-12-02
OPERATION ENGAGING '. ATTENTION OF WHOLE WORLD


 .> ,nc-FLxING OPERATION ENGAGING -..4. t.: ATTENTION OF WHOLE WORLD .'~: = =" .A
 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, Q The - :-..-'<-next great flying operation to engage -sSs 1sifse astention:of the whole world is the
 s.~-trossing of the Pacific. Ocean, accord
 ing-to-Air Service News Letter, war
 a,Idspsftmsnt publication of the infor-
 nation group of the army air service, %saa..s issued ,tp keep the personal of the air ....r ::ssgyiee infonnsd. .,....
 ssx ssss,..D Discussing the project the Air Ser ss ~- <yies News, letter says:
 :.,S;sssssss Looked at from any point of view, .n .xs.. it will be the most difficult. feat at assssi tempted by aircraft, aad the man who ;a1syst spceeeds in the undertaking will have '-.'s won the highest place in the annals of seronautics.
 :."As early as March 1920, the Manu- = ",' facsGTers: Aircraft Association an- %:$:.! $: :aounced that the United States Navy
 had in preparation two boats of trip
 su.,ple engine power designed especially :s t6rtransEPacific flying.
 's ' 's,>,,: "of the two routes proposed for a ss crossing thu; great expanse of water, one steetches from San Francisco to
 ~ Aasaskons. Sehifis China; a distance of 7,s1s e's aautieaf miles. Stops could be made at ;.Itoschaad to Wake Island to Guam,
 l$se miles; Guam to Manila, 1920
 mile, Manila to Hongkong, 675, miles,
 sStssThg shortest route possible, howev- .-= CT, would follow somewhat closely the Great Cipsle. steamship route, and x. A. you'd cut the distance to approximate : -s.s. iy, 800 or s,7oO nautical miles, Sup ss,:s.;s. posing-th flier to hop off from Vic ,...., toria, his first jump would bring him
 . to sitka, thence next to Uninak Pass
 .,~:. in the Aledtians, and so on to Yoko-
 x>, hama. sss ,.-+,
 While the more northerly route offers the advantage in point of dis
 c tanhse hS isc So iong as We are in the pres a., .,, .ent experimental stage of knowledge ss.. as regards aeronautics, other ques- =. ltions Suggest themselves that must be .,.'~ ... taken into consideration before 8 ,..i.- = el6ice could be determined The fog, ,s-s.-,. familiar to the Great Circle route would add to the airman's difficult % '~:,., .:. ies provided they extend to yer,
 -: great altitude into the air lanes It is
 -spssSahle, however, that fairly gooG .:., sss.&ssisihlity. would extend, say to 2O.Oot ssassss ::;steesaaheye sealeavel from December to <. t.::"., Feb<sary. during which period the ss-a-,,y fQss.srs. Jess apparent.
 s@-s=S:, = -sla sthis region, also; high winds. snoshsr factor to ee reckoned with in .s :ssss $ the airman's calculation, come, broad s Z=s< :S. speaking from two main sources '.sa ss .ssaad onssese sin two. different direc- saass<ssA .>; tons. A, sssong =souther wind from s's's ss &I Southern Japan sweeps up across the :;ses>r Pacific te: the. Aleutans, while from $ s-s =: seath. America, a gale sweeps up the
 coast in a north-westerly direction. 4+'. While plans are being considered >, oa this side for the trans-Pacific flight fout England comes the announce \. nnsnt that an airplane is being built tss: = :sss flisht from Sidney, Australia, :::*; s. tsssSa Fraseiseo. From Sidney to the s'. 4k;i 9slsnd the ilmp would be 1,74s; to z. hhaelsla ai7as thence to 'san Francis s.s', ~<> ;aed, eoso.s; $ ,..s1 .v.
 :s;,, ::s "la anticipation of this; event and .s, of itssIosical< results, a schedule of ess.as ess.s :tlans-eceaanic flights might be made .-.e.- =, gaaa ralsiing somewhat as follows:- sS H"' Hhtifsx to- Ireland in two days; New al -,- oxkto. Liverpool, two and half days Y ss ;,. San Franciseo to Sidney, three days; :, r ,s, vsnesnver to. Yokohama, three and a e: -:.:s, half days; sad the world in twenty -~-- :Hsissas das flowing for stops of sye
 esys ssss