By Airboat Across Pacific

Mr. Archbold Returning To Papua

From Our Own Correspondent

Honolulu, Aug. 1.

'OICHARD ARCHBOLD, 30 year old -*■*' associate of the American Museum of Natural History, whose expedition into Papuan wilds last year ended sud denly in a guba at Port Moresby, has announced that he hopes to fly across the Pacific to Papua next .December.

He has bought a new seven-ton Con solidated airboat (latest word for flying boat) which a month ago he and Consoli dated test pilots flew non-stop across the U.S. continent, from San Diego to New

. York in 17g hours —the first airboat to accomplish the feat. There were at least 50 water places where the airboat could have landed, such as dams, rivers and lakes.

The twin motored airboat, which Mr.

Archbold has called Guba, is equipped with every device for safe flying, and with a wide-range two-way radio tele phone. A special system has been instal led for dropping .food and other supplies by parachute.

The airboat is a sister ship of the 176 Consolidated patrol airboats which are being built for the U.S. navy. Mr, Arch bold’s is the first one to be released by the Government for private use. Normally in navy use the airboats have a range of 6,250 miles at a cruising speed of be tween 120 and 130 m.p.h. at 10,000 feet.

Mr. Archbold will fly along the Pan- American Airways System’s trans-Pacific route to Guam, and then head south for Port Moresby. Four scientists will go ahead of him by steamer. Their leader will be Dr. Austin L. Rand.

Mr. Richard Archbold, the American scientist, in the hatch of his new airboat, in which he will fly from Honolulu to Port Moresby in December.