The Round Voyage, via Swatow, Hongkong and Pakhoi to Haiphong and back by the same steamer to Shanghai takes approximately 24 days. A stay of about 3 days is made in Haiphong enabling passengers to make a visit to the beautiful Bale d'Along. s. "KWANGTUNG" sails TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 s. "KINGYUAN" sails FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 exceed, specially as the average s was 153 mp4.
The whole undertaking was beautifully. organized and with the aid of elaborate blind flying apparatus and automatic pilots, keeping in touch all through the journey by radio with. ground stations and each other, the three machines kept a perfect course which was almost equal to a formation flight. They never had a favouring wind and sometimes the weather was very bad, with violent storms ard head winds over the Netherlands East Indies and tropical thunderstorms further south most of the way to Port Darwin.. It is worth noting too that the aeroplanes were so loaded with petrol and apparatus that the three men in each could only just squeeze in. To be thus cramped for 48 hours would be-not the least of the Apply to
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