The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-04-08
PAA LOCKHEED MAKES RECORD,
 SCHEDULE TRIP
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ESlduHoillllS tIdNtl IeCOiu pe- tween Fairbanks and Juneau, the Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed Electra made the trip Sunday from the Interior city to the Capital in three hours and thirty three min utes flying time, covering dis tance of TOO miles. This flight com pleted the inaugural round trip of the company on it's weekly sched- ule between the two cities, which cuts the distance between the coast al and interior districts of Alaska from five or more days by steam CT and train, to few hours.
 With clear weather prevailing over the entire route, the stream line silver plane flew in a direct line from the Interior city to Whitehorse, at an altitude of l2,- coo feet, arriving there several min utes ahead of schedule. After talk ing off from the Canadian airport straight course was taken to Juneau, the plane soaring over the mountains of the Coastal range at an altitude of more than 5000 feet.
 Many Watch Take-0ff
 A large crowd was on hand at the Fairbanks airport yesterday morning to watch the take-off of the luxurious plane on its epochal flight to Juneau, the first sched- ule trip to the coast from the In- terior. With cameras clicking, Mayor E. B. Collins, of Fairbanks, presented gilt heart, the city's emblem, to Allen Shattuck, Ju- neau's representative on the inaug- ural schedule trip. In short talk, Mayor Collins expressed the deep appreciation of his city and the people of the Interior to the Pa- cific Alaska Airways for bringing the widely separated Coastal and Interior sections of the Territory within a neighborly distance with this weekly service, and extending the greetings of the citizens of Fairbanks to those of Juneau.
 Following the crief ceremony, the words "all aboard were signal to passengers to take their places in the comrnodious plane. With Act ing Divisional Eng ne e T Joseph Barrows at the controls, s. E. Rob- bins, co-pilot and Ollie Ames of the PAA staff and four passengers, the Lockheed Electra soon left the field behind. Passengers leaving Fairbanks, in addition to MT. Shat tuck, were J. J. Hillard, Deputy U. s. Collector of Customs, Mrs. Fred Milligan, of Fairbanks and Doro- thy Morgan. of The Empire staff.
 Climbed Rapidly
 Clear weather prevailed over the entire route according to com munications from PAA radio sta- tions between Fairbanks and the Coast which are kept up constantly between the plane and these ground stations. Climbing steadily until the altitude of 12,000 feet was reached, it was possible for those in the Electra to see hundreds of miles in any direction. With the increase in altitude, trees and oth- CT objects on the earth diminished in size until the ground spread itself out like a vast. relief map with no details discer11able
 Comfortable Mode of Travel
 Passengers within the plane chat ted, read or reclined against the upholstered backs of their conn., fortable seats gazing at the earth far below, as though in a world of their own, while the Electra soar ed through the air at a speed of one hundred and eighty miles an hour. The rolling country of the Interior, with jagged peaks of mountain range far to the right, piercing the sky, changed in an amazingly short time to the more rugged. snow buried country near Whitehorse. at .sG
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