The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-23
BY OTTO JANSEN

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 Washington, Aug. 23.-(UP)--The disappearance of the Hawaiian clip per on it's 7000-mile oceanic flight from San Franci-No to Manila has renewed speculation regarding the feasibility of an all-land route from the United States to the Far East.
 Although refusing any official comment as to the merits of such a route, most government experts con- suited agreed the subject is one that deserves serious consideration, par ticularly in view of the success of past flights to the east over land and the apparent hazards of present ocean routes.
 The most recent and one of the most successful lover land" flights between east and west was the leg of Howard Hughes round-the-w world journey that took him from Moscow through the central part of Russia and Siberia to Fairbanks, Alaska, and home.
 Wiley Post in 1883 followed a somewhat similar course on his globe-girdling flight, flying from Moscow, through Siberia, across parts of the Boring and Okhotsk seas to Flat and Fairbank, Alaska, and home.
 Lindbergh Flew Route Col. Charles A. Lindbergh also flew over part of this. territory on one of his later flights and as early as 1924 army round- -the-world fly CTS followed course westward that was principally over land south of this area.
 In all cases, of course, the flyers encountered obstacles that would not be found on over-Water flight, such as mountainous and uncharted ter rain, but most observers agree that the land route offers this one impor- tant advantatge-there is usually some place to put plane down in event of emergency.
 A land route would involve great CT distances than a course over the ocean, but at the same time impor- tant cities may be included in the schedule that cannot be touched in an ocean crossing.
 There are two major routes to the Far East which most observers be- lieve would receive primary con- sideration in any plans to establish a United States to the Orient lover land" air lane.
 Cross Sea at Kamchtka
 The first follows roughly, the course taken by the army flyers in their round-the-world flight. This section of the flight began at Se- attle, Wash, continued northwest ward Up the Pacific coast to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, extend- ed to Sitka and Seward, Alaska. followed the Aleutian Island chain into mid-Pacific, crossed Kam- chatka, peninsula, and turned south across the Kurile Islands to Japan proper and thence to Shanghai.
 Although at no time were the planes forced to fly over large ex- panses of water, 1t would be possi- ble to plot a commercial route that would require even shorter water hops and at the same time include important cities without unduly extending the course.
 For example. 1t is suggested the commercial airliner might start at San Francisco or Seattle, continue northeast to Seward and along the Aleutian Island chain to Attu, hop across a short water distance to the Russian city of Petropaclovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula, down to the important Japanese indus trial center of Kobe and across the East China Sea to Manila. Distance of 5000 Miles The total distance of this route would be about 5000 miles, com pared with the 7,000-mile sea route the Hawaii Clipper followed from San Francisco to Hawaii, Midway, Wake, Guam and Manila. The major disadvantage to this route is the fact that storm wealth CT is often encountered in the northern part of Japan and along the Aleutians. Although planes might be able to reach a suitable landing place in time to avoid trouble, the frequency of the storms might result in long delays.