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[[newspaper clippings and illustrations]] [[drawing of man playing a guitar, a woman dancing, a man with a long stick and a hooded figure standing in front on a town by a river]] [[newspaper clippings]] NEW YORK SUN, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939 Dixie Clipper Nearing Lisbon [[line]] Airliner Alights at Horta for Refueling and Then Starts Off on Second Leg. [[line]] The Dixie Clipper, bearing the first paying passengers ever to be flown across the Atlantic in a heavier-than-air plane, took off from Horta, the Azores, on the second leg of her successful flight, at 8:36 A. M., Eastern daylight saving time (10:56 A. M., Horta time). Her destination was Lisbon, Portugal, and she had been on the water at Horta for an hour and forty-four minutes. The airliner made good time on leaving the Azores, and by 10:30 A. M., Eastern daylight time, reported herself 285 miles out of Horta, flying at 8,000 feet with an eleven-mile tail wind that kept the speed steady at 153 miles an hour. The course was due East. Reports on her progress came from the Pan American Airways base at Port Washington, L. I. and told how the great ship, riding the wings of a following wind, dropped out of the sky at Horta at 6:52 A. M., Eastern daylight time. She wasted no time, but taxied at once to the landing place. Her twenty-two passengers, who had enjoyed a smooth crossing, found the hour of arrival just about right, giving them ample time to dress and breakfast. The crew of eleven took the Clipper to the dock, where the work of refueling was begun at once, in preparation for an immediate take-off for Lisbon. The Dixie Clipper took 15 hours 40 minutes to cover the distance, and she arrived at Horta eight minutes before her scheduled time. Head winds cut her speed during the early portion of the flight, and it seemed for a while that she would be late. But as she approached Horta the breeze shifted, and got on her tail. Thus assisted, the Clipper's speed was stepped up to 180 miles an hour, and the lost time more than regained. [[end column 1]] [[column 2]] Flew as High as 10,000 Feet. During much of the flight the Clipper flew at altitudes ranging from 8,000 to 10,000 feet. Weather conditions were good, especially for the navigators, who had continuous opportunity to get sights on stars. Beneath the plane clouds occasionally banked up so as to hide the ocean below, but most of the time conditions for sight-seeing were superb. The base at Port Washington was in direct communication with the Clipper until 3:30 A. M., and a constant stream of messages kept air line officials posted as to what was going on. The radio log reveals that the Clipper passed over Montauk Point, at the far eastern end of Long Island at 4 P. M. yesterday. An hour later Capt. R. O. D. Sullivan in command of the plane, reported his ship 241 miles from Port Washington, flying at an altitude of 6,000 feet over scattered clouds. Her departure from the base had been taken at 3:12 P. M. The next report at 6:30 P. M., put the Clipper 484 miles east of New York, at 7,000 feet, with an unobstructed view of the sea. At 7:30 P. M. the plane was 621 miles out, with weather conditions unchanged. Two hours later she was 870 miles out, more than a third of the distance on the first leg. The average speed was 130 miles an hour, due to light head winds, and the altitude was 8,000 feet. 1397 Miles Out at 1 A. M. By midnight the Clipper was more than halfway along flying at 10,000 feet. Half an hour earlier Capt. Sullivan had reported his ship as 1,100 miles out of Port Washington. [[/column 2]] [[column 3]] The Clipper reported herself as 1,397 miles from New York and 1,000 miles from Horta at 1 A. M. The speed had been increased to 155 miles an hour and the altitude was the same. At 2 A. M. the plane had cut the distance between herself and Horta to 850 miles and her last direct message, at 3:30 A. M., placed her out 600 miles short of her immediate objective. Next word came from the Clipper via Horta and Baltimore, with considerable difficulty in getting good reception in the [[?]] morning hours. It was that at 6:30 A. M., Eastern daylight time the Clipper had sighted the [[Rien?]] Mountains, outside of Horta. Capt. Sullivan advised that he expected to land within a short time. Definite information that the Clipper had landed at Horta was received shortly afterward. She was scheduled to remain at the Azores for one hour, and then hop off for Lisbon. She remained somewhat longer than that. [[picture of workers in field with baskets]] [[caption]] A TEA PLANTATION Photogr [[/caption]] [[photo of plane in water with four propellers on wing]] [[/column 3]] [[three column (4-5) banner]] PORTUGAL [[/three column (4-5) banner]] [[column 4]] 33 on Clipper Reach Lisbon in Less Than Day [[line]] Dixie Spans Atlantic With First Paying Passengers; Short Stop made at Horta [[line]] LISBON, June 29 (AP).-Aviation's old dream, commercial transportation of passengers across the Atlantic by airplane, was realized tonight when the Dixie Clipper brought the first twenty-two paying passengers from New York to Lisbon in eight minutes less than a day. With a crew of eleven, besides the passengers, the forty-one-ton flying boat of Pan American Airways alighted on the Tagus River at 7:10 p. m. (3:10 p. m., New York time), 23 hours 52 minutes after leaving Port Washington, L. I., on Wednesday. A stop of 1 hour 44 minutes was made at Horta in the Azores this morning. A dinner was given tonight at the Hotel Aviz, where the United States Minister to Portugal, H. C. Pell, unveiled a provisional plaque commemorating the flight, and the Touring Club of Portugal presented a silver trophy and blue ribbon symbolic of Pan American's primacy over the Atlantic. The Clipper is to take off for Marseilles at 6 a. m. tomorrow. [[line]] [[two column (4-5) green and red logo]] AVENIDA PALACE [[emblem over circle with lines through it]] HOTEL LISBONNE [[/two column (4-5) green and red logo]] [[/column 4]] [[column 5]] [[image of stylized bird with wings outstretched]] Dixie's In Safe! Sea Hop Ended At Lisbon Port ^[[June - 30 - 1938.]] Port Washington, N. Y., June 29 — (INS) — The Dixie Clipper, carrying the first 22 commercial passengers across the Atlantic in addition to a crew of 11, at Lisbon, Portugal, this afternoon at 3:10 o'clock (Eastern Daylight Time), 23 hours and 52 minutes after her take-off yesterday from New York. Airline distance between New York and Lisbon is 3,447 miles. The Clipper will remain at Lisbon tonight and take off on the final leg of her flight, to Marseille, tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock (Eastern Daylight Time), arriving at the French seaport at 11 o'clock (Eastern Daylight Time), in the morning. [[/column 5]]
