On their first survey flight to New Zealand, arriving 30 March 1937, Captain Edwin Musick and his six officers of the flying boat Pan American Clipper spent five days in Auckland. They departed in the early hours of Sunday 4 April, one day later than scheduled due to unfavourable winds.
Pan American Airways staff discussing further flights of the Clipper after arrival at Auckland. L-R: HR Canaday, navigator; WM Holsenbeck, mechanic; A Francis, meteorologist and operations manager at Auckland; Captain Edwin Musick, commander of the Clipper. Evening Post, 2 Apr 1937. Alexander Turnbull Library
The Clipper taking off from Auckland on a sightseeing flight, 2 Apr 1937. ‘Weather caused the proposed flight to Wellington to be cancelled, but a number of guests were taken on a four-hour trip as far south as Napier and Hastings.’ Weekly News, 7 Apr 1937. George Grey Special Collection, Auckland Library
‘Although the Clipper has left New Zealand, Mr WT Jarboe, wireless operator to Pan-American Airways, still keeps in touch with the flying-boat from Auckland. He is seen taking a message from the Clipper at the radio shack at St Heliers. The tall cabinet on the left contains the transmitter apparatus, and on Mr Jarboe’s right are the receiving set and the sending keyboard. The equipment shown is valued at about £1000.’ Evening Post, 08 April 1937, p17
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