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The Inaugural Martin M-Roy Analysis
The inaugural Martin M-130 transpacific service arrived in Hong Kong from Manila in November 1936 bearing the Pan American board, including Juan Trippe and his wife Betty who were on the first leg of a round the world fact finding trip. Next, they proceeded from Hong Kong they to Shanghai in a CNAC Dolphin, continuing to Beijing by DC-2. Subsequently, they returned to Hong Kong in reverse and continued westward by Imperial

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