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China Clipper - Wikipedia China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila on November 22, 1935 [1]
China Clipper (1936) - IMDb China Clipper: Directed by Ray Enright With Pat O'Brien, Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander, Humphrey Bogart Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes
Martin M-130 China Clipper - Aviation History The China Clipper was wrecked on January 8, 1945, shortly after the tenth anniversary of its first flight, when it struck an unlit boat during a night landing in the Port of Spain, Trinidad, killing 23 crew and passengers
Martin M-130: The Story Of The China Clipper Flying Boat The first Martin M-130, nicknamed the “China Clipper,” was delivered to Pan American Airways on October 9th, 1935, and would take off on its first flight just over a month later
The China Clipper - National Postal Museum The China Clipper was the first of a series of flying boats owned by Pan American airways that crisscrossed the Pacific beginning in 1935 The boats were named for the clipper sailing ships of the mid-19th century, the speedy trading ships
The Martin M-130 Pictorial History@ flyingclippers. com On November 22 1935, Pan Am's Martin M-130 China Clipper inaugurates the first trans-Pacific air mail service, flying from San Francisco to the Orient In 1935, it was the largest aircraft ever constructed in America It was the plane that conquered the Pacific
Pan American Airways | China Clipper China Clipper is based on over 6,900 documents, 4 years original research Pan American Airways' flying boats were the aeronautical miracles of the decade, flying passengers from San Francisco to China in 6 days
China Clippers flight made history 75 years ago - SFGATE Seventy-five years ago today, a silvery four-engined seaplane took off from Alameda and headed west across San Francisco Bay and out to sea for a flight into history It was the famous China
Martin M-130 - Wikipedia Martin named them the Martin Ocean Transports, but to the public they were the "China Clippers", a name that became a generic term for Pan Am's large flying boats - including, retroactively, the smaller Sikorsky S-42 (first flown in 1931) and larger Boeing 314 (first flown in 1938)
Pan Ams China Clipper and the End of the Airship And just a few years later Pan Am introduced an even larger, faster, and more luxurious clipper — the Boeing 314 — and was finally obtained permission to begin passenger service across the Atlantic