A tri-motor Ford and a Stinson were warming up. I always feel a quickening of the pulse and a sense of exhilaration when T see a plane ready ta take off, and against the background of the t life of aeroplanes were enhance of the China National Aviation Ca. spic and span in their uniforms, were assisting the passengers into the waiting planes. The hangars of the Eurasia Company were further down: the field. They were waiting for weather signals from Nanking. The plane was a trimotor Junkers with capacity for two pilots, 14 passenger It bore on its cabin the name Wilhelm T met the two German pilots. The chief pilot was tall: "able-looking: decisive, "He reminded me of the rnilot with whom T had flown twelve years before in a four-passenger Junkers down the Magdalena, Valley, Colombia, South America. He was Count N. D. Grat Castell, well-Known as a filer in Germany and in the Far East. I talked with a fellow American, who was boarding the '2 business man from Massa iis who was going through Chengtu on this. plan about 1,185 miles from Tunkers plane does It in ten and one-halt hours. 'The China National 'Aviation Ca, announces they will put 'Doulas plane in this service whic' will make the trip In eight hours.
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