Pan-American Airways Experts
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At Swain’S Island
Pan-American Airways Experts in Yacht Kinkajou
APIA, December 19. 4CCORDING to a report from Swain’s Island (Gente Hermosa), the American yacht Kinkajou called there on December 9.
The Kinkajou, a vessel of 45 tons and 90 feet long, has been chartered by Mr. Dana Coman, of Hopkins University. Mr. Coman is on board with his partner, the famous world-flyer, Mr. Harold Gatty. Captain Fink is in command of the vessel, which set out from Honolulu, via Howland and Baker Islands, for Swain’s Island and Pago Pago. She later returned, via Jarvis Island, to Honolulu.
Mr. Gatty, who accompanied the late Wiley Post in 1931 on his record flight of seven days round the globe, is now con nected with Pan-American Airways. The purpose of the expedition to the little islands in the mid-Pacific was to study the possibilities of the proposed air route of Pan-American Airways from Honolulu, via Pago Pago, to Auckland, New Zealand, which is to be started during 1936.
The U.S.S. Ithasca is expected to arrive at Swain’s Island in January.