A score or more Shanghai Chinese and foreign residents had the "thrill of their lives" on Thursday afternoon when, og guests of the Boeing Aeroplane' Company, they were treated") to alr trips over the city in the luxurious transport plane of Gen. Chung Hsueh-liang.
Under direction of Mr. Wellwood E, Beall, Far Eastern representative of the Boeing Company, the plane piloted by Mr. Julius Bars, personal pilot tothe "Young Marshal," took off from Lunghwa aerodrome on four trips of half an hour each. Guests were prominent Chinese officials, their wives. and friends, and a scattering of foreigners including aviation en thusiasts and press representatives "The plane, known throughout all China as the "White Bogie" because for landing hu chao purposes the name Boeing, dificult to pronounce Chinese has been changed to "Bai Ying" which translated Literally. means "White Eagle", zoomed through the air at a rate of 200 miles an hour and at an altitude of 3,500 feet. Extremely exciting to the guest-passengers was when Mr. Barr pulled the plane into a high zoom from 3,500 to 6,000 feet and then nosed down gently trid circled the city at a lower altude so that all might view Sha hai, the Whangpoo winding about tt. Then he flew over the field and made what is known to old-timers asa "clipper-turn" (a vertical bank).
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