Show HONOLULU FLIGHT MORE THAN JUST ORDINARY HOP I J lent leut Corn Com Knefler re- re regards reli regards li gards the mass macs flight of or six nivy mv pines from San Francisco to Ilono- Ilono as simply i t routine performance These planes were v ere desi de for patrol duty at Pearl Harbor In Instead instead Irstead stead of being shipped to their des destination they wire were Ce flo flown flon n by a crew of cre of 30 men over 2 miles of ot open Pacific To skilled I fliers fIlers this mabe mac ma mabe be Just another night hop But It Its itis is s nevertheless of ot striking significance In the de development of or long dl distance tance both commercial and mill tury The stretch between the United Unite States tates and Hawaii all Is the longest over water hop In tiling flying fl In the Pacific Between Hawaii all and the Philippines or other parts of or Asli A 11 n a number r or nf Islands might serve na ns stopping points General Bilbo brought ht the air squadron to the United States list summer without 1 milting ln any nonstop flights I l In to the one just completed by the tho American Amerlan planes They Thy hl hose hive e set Q a anew new v distance record for miss m flights Almost any part of or the world may be retched without flying over oser more moreth th thin 2100 miles of or open sea In n a single stage hive spanned the distance between our western con coast 1 and flono- flono lulu a n number of ot times But nut most of or these flights hue have hu e been mental solos hen six navy make mahe the trip In formation without accident or undue difficulty the range of ot the th na fiS an nn Instrument of or destruction in n war time is graphically graphical ly Iy trl ted |