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The giant Pan American airways transpacific airliner China Clipper has arrived at Manila with the first mail ever to cross the Pacific by air . The flight took a week .
The plane was ahead of schedule , but was one minute late in coming to her moorings because she was held up by the crowd of small boats in the harbour .
Photo shows , the crew of the China Clipper just before the take off , left to right , Victor Wright , second engineering officer Frederick J Noonan , navigation officer , Captain Edwin Musick , Commander Captain R O D Sullivan , first officer , C D Wright , first engineering officers , George King , second officer Thomsas R Runnels , second radio officer ( second from right ) and William T Jorbae , first radio officer ( extreme right ) . Captain Fred Noonan was later navigator for Amelia Earhart and disappeared with her on the ill fated attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Frederick Joseph "Fred" Noonan (April 4, 1893 - missing July 2, 1937, declared dead June 20, 1938)
2 December 1935