314

With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain.

This week the Clipper lay at her moorings at Southampton, England, ready for the return flight. Purpose of the trip, which may be the last before Pan-Am begins regular service to Europe this summer : to check technical facilities, including radio direction-finding equipment at Lisbon and Marseille.

Three other of Pan-Am's 314s were in service this week, two on the Pacific run, the third on the New York-Bermuda route, operated by Pan-Am alone since the crash of Imperial Airways' Cavalier (TIME, Jan. 30). The Easter rush of Bermuda vacationers set an airline record: the Bermuda Clipper carried 60 passengers on each of three north-bound trips.

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