Ancient Wisdom Vault

Guanabo Beach, Havana, 1950s.

A trip on the Martin M-130 China Clipper in 1936 included five stops from San Francisco to Hong Kong: Honolulu; Midway Island; Wake Island; Guam; and Manila, Philippines. Passenger counts on the San Francisco-Honolulu leg rarely exceeded six or seven. With any more, luggage had to be sent by ship. Twelve passengers were the maximum. The length of the San Francisco-Honolulu flight-eighteen to twenty-two hours depending on winds-required

An Air Express, the Imperial Airways latest machine, flying over another express - the Flying Scotsman at Welwyn (Herts) on 13th February 1934.