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Show Airmen Anxious for Pacific Flight San Francisco Army, naval and civilian aviators moved swiftly preparing prepar-ing for the aerial conquest of the Pacific Pa-cific between San Francisco and Honolulu.. Hon-olulu.. . Ernie Smith, the air mail flier, who is racing preparations to beat his competitors to the take off in the"2!(30-mile the"2!(30-mile nonstop flight to Honolulu worked work-ed throughout Saturday, night to have his plane on the ground .at the Oakland Oak-land municipal airport for the. finishing finish-ing construction touches the getaway. get-away. With a staff Of nine skilled aviation av-iation mechanics and his navigator, Captain C. H. Carter, Smith directed the trucking of his plane from the. San . Francisco machine shop, where, it was carried out to the .Oakland airport, the 7000-foot runway "from which the fliers will sail into -the" skies on -their nonstop flight over the-Pacific. Smith .: was forced to abandon his plan to take off from Crissy field because of the ruling of army, officials that his. plane would not be permitted on the field. : |