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[[scrapbook-like page with overlapping images like a collage]] POST New York City [[stamp]]Jun 29 19[[?99]][[/stamp]] [[newspaper clipping]] Clipper Arrives at Horta, Then Flies on for Lisbon [[line]] Largest Plane, Carrying 22 Passengers, Will Remain Overnight in Portugal [[line]] PORT WASHINGTON, L.I., June 29.-It was good-bye Horta today, and hello Lisbon, for the twenty-two pioneer passengers who left here yesterday afternoon on the world's first ticket and time table airboat flight across the North Atlantic. The Dixie Clipper, with its sister ships the largest plane ever built, arrived at Horta, in the Azores, at 6:52 A. M. (New York time), according to radio report to Pan American Airways here. After refueling it took off for Lisbon, Portugal, at 8:36 A. M. By schedule it should make Lisbon in eight hours. The flight from Port Washington to Horta took fifteen hours and forty minutes. Just Like a Pullman Winging over the wastes of ocean, the passengers, including six women, were able to sleep, if they wished, as comfortable as at home. On the Dixie, and her sister ships, the Yankee Clipper and Atlantic Clipper, berths are made up at bedtime just as on the finest compartment Pullman car. The passengers had dinner last night in a spacious dining salon seating fourteen at a time, and they must have had trouble remembering that they were some 9,000 feet in the air and hundreds of miles at sea. The salon has walls of beige, is carpeted in rich terra cotta and the double windows on each side are hung with Venetian blinds. By 1 A. M., which should have been bedtime for even the hardiest, the ship was already 1,397 miles out from Port Washington and only 1,000 miles from Horta. But the passengers may have had a bit of trouble keeping an orderly time routine. 4 Hours Gone From Day Time plays queer tricks when you are soaring eastward over the earth's curve at 145 to 165 miles per hour. By their watches it was 6:52 A. M. when the passengers stretched their legs on land at Horta. By Horta clocks, however, it was 10:52 A. M. In effect the passengers overnight had lost four hours out of their lives, and this rapid evaporation of time will continue as they go on. During the first part of last night's flight the plane had a favoring wind and high-tailed it, but head-winds early this morning cut speed down. Pan American officials had time-tabled it to arrive in Horta at 5 A. M. Thus, the first air express to cross the Atlantic was nearly two hours late at its first stop [[/newspaper clipping]] [[photograph of 3 water vessels]] [[photograph of a water vessel, with caption Pan-American Service Boats]] [[image of an emblem with a shield, a banner and sea birds-ASSOCIACAO COMMERCIAL DA HORTA]] [[photograph of a sea airplane landed on water]] [[map of the North Atlantic showing the flight path in red- Drawn by Newman Bumstead GEOGRAPHY CAST THE AZORES FOR A THRILLING ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS The nine little Portuguese islands, linking the hemispheres, serve as a natural halfway station for transatlantic flyers and one, Fayal, is a clearing house for cablegrams. Self-sufficient and industrious, each small dot of land has a charm and individuality all its own, from remote Corvo and Flores to Santa Maria, where Columbus stopped in 1493 with the news of his discovery.[[/map]] [[logo-AÇŌRES]] [[logo-Fayal]] [[photograph of a seaplane landed on the water in a harbor amidst other vessels, with caption HIDRO CLIPPER DA PAN AMERICAN NO PORTO DA HORTA PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS CLIPPER IN THE BAY OF HORTA]] [[logo-Fayal]] [[photograph of a seaplane landed on the water in harbor amidst other vessels, with caption HIDRO CLIPPER DA PAN AMERICAN NO PORTO DA HORTA PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS CLIPPER IN THE BAY OF HORTA
