Evening star., 1938-07-29
Clipper
CONTINUED From First PareD

sea 10 miles wide, flying 10 miles
apart.
For several hours after the Clip
per's usual landing time-between 2:30
and $3.50 pm. Q:30 and 2:3O am.
Eastern standard time) Pan-Americsn
officials insisted they were not worried
At $50 pm. one official, although
unable to explain the Clippers failure
to report by radio at the regularly
scheduled intervals, said:
She had to go around the storm
and buck headwinds, therefore we
did not expect her until around 6
O'Clock tonight Is am. Eastern stand
ard time) even now we consider her
only half hour late. But that is not
unusual"
Carried Six Passengers.
The Hawaii Clipper, under COM
mand of Capt. Leo Terletzky of Palo
Alto Calf, carried six passengers and
crew of nine
The passengers in addition to the
two Washington men, are:
Maj. Howard French Tacoma.
Wash.
K. A. Kennedy Piedmont. Calf,
Pan-American Airways division traffic
manager.
E. E. Wyman, New York City.
Wah Sun, Choy, Jersey City.
The crew:
Leo Terletzky, Palo Alto, Calf, cap
tain.
M. A. Walker, Berkeley, Calf, first
officer.
G. M. Davis. Oakland, Calf, second
officer.
J. M. Sauceda, Oakland, third Of
ficer
J. w. Jewett, Oakland, fourth Of
ficer
H. L. Cox. Alameda. Calf, engineer
officer.
T. B. Tatum, Honolulu, assistant en-
gineer officer.
w. McCarty, Alameda, radio officer
I. Parker, flight steward.
Maj. French is a Tacoma building
contractor and an officer in the WASH
ington National Guard flying unit. Mr..
Wyman is vice president of the Cur
tiss-Wright Aircraft Corp. and was
formerly assistant to the president of
Pan-American Airways. Choy Wah
Sun is Jersey City restaurant oper-
ator.
Reported Rough Flying.
The last position given by the flying
boat was 1927 north latitude, 13O.40
east longitude. This is approximately
900 miles east of the Philippine Is
land of Samar
In her noon report the clipper said
she was flying through cloud banks
and the wind was "a bit rough" The
Weather Bureau here said its maps
indicated the weather was good at sea
in that vicinity and no storms were in
sight.
The transport Meigs reported
weather conditions were fair on the
oceans surface. The clipper hoped
of from Guam at 3:39 am. (2:39
pm. Thursday, Eastern standard
time).
The Hawaii, one of three flying boats
In regular trans-Pacific service for
Pan-American Always, left her East
ern base at Alameda, Calf, last
Saturday.
Capt. Terletzky was described by
Pan-American officials as one of their
best flyers. He started flying for the
company about 10 years ago and for
merly was attached to the South
American and caribbean lines. He
was a 43-year-old naturalized Russian.
In addition to her crew and pas
sengers, the plane carried several hun
dred pounds of mail and express.
Pan-American officials said the
three ships flying the Alameda Manila
route had logged a total of nearly
100000 miles of flying over the Pa
cific.
The Clippers strong hull was de-
signed to keep the big flying boat
afloat Indefinitely unless it were de-
molished by impact with the ocean.
It was constructed with bulkheads,
like those of surface ships, that could
shut off various parts of the plane
by closing doors.
The ship, equipped with four 300
horsepower wasp motors. could fly
If one motor cut out. Moderately
loaded as the ship was, it could
keep aloft even if two engines stopped
if the pilot tackled" it to keep it on
an even keel
If undamaged, the Clippers double
radio sets could summon aid, even If
the ship were forced down on the
water. The radios have a range of
1,400 miles.
Every advanced instrument for air
navigation and one life preserver for
each passenger was included in the
equipment.
Although the ship carried only Is
persons, it was capable of carrying So
persons, including crew members, on
daylight flights.
Since the clipper ships started op-
Grating late in 1885 there had been
only one emergency landing in the
vicinity of the Philippines. That was
on Christmas eve in 1886. when clip
per encountered thick weather and sat
down in a cove of Samar Island.
1t remained there all night and flew
to Manila the next day. Pan-Amer-
ican Airways recalled that that ship
was not heard from for some hours
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