Ernest Hemingway and China’s Wings
As noted in yesterday’s “Boxer Uprising” post featuring Mickey Hahn, Hugh Woods, and Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway spent time with CNAC i...
Tag: veterans of CNAC
Stories and photos related to veterans of the China National Aviation Corporation and China’s Wings, by Gregory Crouch
Emily Hahn, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, China’s Wings, and The Boxer Uprising
Another hilarious Emily "Mikey" Hahn flavored outtake from the China's Wings rough draft featuring Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, and some of the CNAC piilo...
Emily Hahn and CNAC, aka The Hardest Cut, Part III
This is the third part of this story, and they ought to be read in order. Here’s Part I and Part II. The putrid ape smell didn’t fade from the apartment f...
Emily Hahn and CNAC, aka The Hardest Cut, Part II
(Continued from yesterday…) On the ground, Mickey Hahn crossed the harbor and took a room at the Gloucester Hotel on Peddar Street in Central Hong Kong, b...
Emily Hahn and CNAC, aka The Hardest Cut, Part I
My favorite outtake from the China's Wings manuscript
The official winery of China’s Wings
I hereby anoint Cartograph Wines as the official winery of China’s Wings. Founded by Alan Baker and my dear friend Serena Lourie, Cartograph is a micro wi...
Another adventure in the Consolidated Commodore
None of his passengers got so much as a scratch, and CNAC’s sole surviving Loening Air Yacht retrieved them in relays to Hankow. Recovering the stranded Commo...
CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore
CNAC desperately needed airplanes in late 1937, and Bond tipped Colonel Lam to the existence of two Pan Am Commodores languishing in Manila. Beginning in early ...
China’s Wings and Craig and Harold Chinn
Here’s Craig Chinn holding a portrait of his father, CNAC pilot Harold Chinn, and surrounded by the twelve copies of China’s Wings he has bought as ...