Promptly at 4.26 p.m. on October 25, four minutes ahead of time, an excited group of.
tators who had gathered at the Hungjao Aerodrome, heard the wher of the giant tri-motored Ford plane which left Tientsin at 8.30 yesterday morning. Flying low, it suddenly swooped up like a huge silver bird, circled over the field once or twice, and flew off into the distance. Then, as the engine was shut off, it drifted slowly back and down, making a perfect landing.
Mr. Perry Hutton, the gether with Mr. A. Ki mechanic, and Mr. Graham of the Standard Oil Ca., in Mukden, who earnie as a passenger, were greeted by Mr. J. V. Crowe, director of the Ford Motor Company Exports, Me. Mr. S. C. Yui, representing the Bureau of Public Safety, and Colonel Shen, Commanding Officer in charge of the aerodrome.
After being examined by the Customs officers the pilot was allowed to alight from his plane. Mr. Hutton in no way approximated the popular conception of what a pilot should look like. No leather jacket, leather boots, khaki trousers, helmet and goggles for this pilot. He emerged from the plane ina blue lounge suit, as immaculate and calm as though' he had spent the past hour at a tea dance.
Mr. Hutton stated that except for 'a bit of morning fog after they eft Tientsin at 8.30 yesterday morning the trip had been splendid, Travelling at an average speed of 110 miles an hour the plane rested only for forty minutes at Tsinanfu, where it stopped at the request of Chinese officials and to get oil. Four hours and ten minutes were required to fly the distance from Tsinanfu to Shanghai.
The tri-motored Ford plane car-8 thirteen passengers and is a of the planes used by the dux Company to carry passengers across the continent in America, It is equipped with enormous headlights which are werted into the wings for night flying. The plane has a wing spread of 76 feet, a length of 49 feet 10 inches, and a height of 11 feet 9 inches. Constructed from heat-treated aluminum alloy channels riveted and covered with corrugated "Alclad" alloy, coated duralumin sheet, is comparatively light when empty, weighing 6,500 pounds. The Ford plane was sent by boat tv Japan whence it flew to Korea, then to Mukden, Tientsin, and to Shanghai, It will later make flights to southern China for demonstration purposes, as Chinese officials have shown themselves intensely interested in ft.
While in Mukden the young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang' went up in the plane, took the controls, and drove it himself for twenty minutes. It is planned to in General Chiang Kai-shek to do the same thing.
Mr. Hutton's plans have not been outlined as yet but he intends to stay in Shanghai at least for a week during which time he will be at the Cathay Hotel. During the time that he is here it is expected that a number of exhibition flights over Shanghai will be made and that prominent Chinese and foreign officials will be taken up as pas-
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