Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...
"For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his ...
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How Pan Am crossed the Pacific first, flying boats, Wake and Midway outposts, and the risky tests that created the Clipper era
This episode follows Pan Am’s push beyond the edge of 1930s aviation, from Edwin Musick’s test flights to the brutal logistics of building island bases across the Pacific. It captures the romance of ...
Pan Am's 1937 promotional film Flying the Lindbergh Trail traces Charles Lindbergh's earliest flights across the Caribbean and South America, promoting the airline's new commercial flights on their ...
An Aspen filmmaker is taking to air, sea and land for a new documentary on a little-known piece of aviation history. Dirk Braun, best known locally for his commercial film work with his Red Mountain ...
"From the early 1930s until the end of that decade long-distance air travel was the preserve of the flying-boat, which transported well-heeled passengers in ocean-liner style and comfort across the ...
In the 1930s passengers travelling to and from Bermuda on Pan Am’s legendary “flying boats” were served gourmet meals on china, there was spacious seating, and lounges and sleeping berths to make the ...
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