. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls . nd reading matter they dove with anavidity which would have surprised the teachersthey had when they were in grammar school, ifthey could have seen them. It soon became evi-dent that they would not only need a route andschedule to make their journey successful, butalso an enormous amount of general informationabout the countries they would pass over, Well have to study trade winds, oceanicstorm conditions, temperatures, inhabitants, to-pography, and so forth, and so forth, drawledTom Meeks. Say, fellows, I feel like kickingmyself to think
. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls . nd reading matter they dove with anavidity which would have surprised the teachersthey had when they were in grammar school, ifthey could have seen them. It soon became evi-dent that they would not only need a route andschedule to make their journey successful, butalso an enormous amount of general informationabout the countries they would pass over, Well have to study trade winds, oceanicstorm conditions, temperatures, inhabitants, to-pography, and so forth, and so forth, drawledTom Meeks. Say, fellows, I feel like kickingmyself to think I didnt study my geographymore and shoot paper-wads less, when I was akid at school. Well have to do a lot of cramming, thatssure, averred Jolm; but we have several monthsfor that. Just now we want to jmnp into thisroute and schedule. They made up several tentative routes, only todiscard them. Finally, after several hourswork, they had one which everybody seemed toagree was the best that could be picked the schedule, which was figured on the. FINAL PREPARATIONS 97 basis of 120 miles an hour airplane speed, thedraft looked like this: Miles Airport Arrive Leave PANAMA l:00p7:30a 20th 1672 Georgetown 5:30a 21st 21st 1154 Para 6:00p 21st 9:00p 21st 2402 Freetown 6:15p 22d 9:15p 22d 1980 Kuka l:00p 23d 3:00p 23d 2015 Aden 6:00a 24th 9:00a 24th 2116 Colombo 5:30a 25th 8:30a 25th 1612 Singapore 6:00p 25 th 9:00p 25th 2218 Port Darwin 5:30p 26th 8:30p 26th 3826 Apia 5:45a *27th 8:45a 27th 2100 Nukahiva 9:00a 28th 12:00n 28th 3154 San Cristobal 6:00p 29th 9:00p 29th 650 PANAMA 5:30a 30th 24899 * Gain of 1 day by reason of crossing 180th MeridiaR, or Inter-national Date Line, between Port Darwin and Apia. Bob Giddings carried home a copy of thisschedule, and the following Monday morningall four young men met by appointment in theprivate office of the publisher of the Daily Inde-pendent. After they were seated, Mr. Giddingsbrought forth the tentative draft, studied it afew momen
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