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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 ...
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 ...
The history lesson for today is actually three stories in one. It's a folk tale of sorts that the old-timers around Boonville still tell, about Edna Wallach, the World War II plane spotter, who saw ...
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