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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]]

Day wanted to take a flying vacation, and with Mrs. Day first considered a possible trip around the United States, but after further discussion they decided to make it a world tour.  As a result he designed and built a new non-stall, non-spin, machine especially for the trip. It was pronounced stagger, open cockpit biplane with side-by-side seating, wide 2-wheel landing gear and powered by a 4-cylinder inverted 125 H.P. Menasco engine. Called the "Errant" it was built in the rear room of an automobile paint shop in Paterson, New Jersey and flight tested at Teterboro Airport.

The Days at the "Errant" sailed from New York on May 8th, 1931 for England where the plane was assembled at Hendon Airdrome. They started the flying part of their tour from there on May 23th and proceeded by way of Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Bucharest, and Istanbul to the Holy Land. From there they flown on to Baghdad, Bushire and Karachi arriving there on July 26th; then to Calcutta, Akyab, Sandoway, Rangoon, Bangkok and Hanoi, arriving on September 27th, From Hanoi they flew to Hong Kong and Shanghai where, on October 17th, they shipped the "Errant" to San Francisco. On thus long expedition they had made numberous sightseeing rest stops along the way, had been delayed by monsoon rains and had one forced landing when a ruptured oil radiator caused an engine seizure.

 After stopping in Japan the Days reached the United States about November 15th. They left San Francisco on November 27th and arrived at the Newark, New Jersey Airport on December 20th, completing their round-the-world flight except for the two oceans. They were not by a group of Early Birds who gave them a "Welcome Home" reception at the Elks Club in New York.

Early in 1923 Day returned to China where he became an advisor of aircraft manufacturing to the Chinese Government. He remained there until 1934 and during that time became Manager of the first all-Chinese aircraft factory producing pursuit planes.

Returning to the United States in 1934 he became supervisor of aircraft production for the Department of Munitions and Supplies, Ontario, Canada, where he remained until 1940. At the time he became Manager of the aircraft modification

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